StoryTitle("caps", "An Horatian Ode") ?>
Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The forward youth that would appear ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Must now forsake his Muses dear, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Nor in the shadows sing ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "His numbers languishing. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "'Tis time to leave the books in dust,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And oil the unused armour's rust, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Removing from the wall ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The corslet of the hall. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So restless Cromwell could not cease ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the inglorious arts of peace, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But through adventurous war ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Urgéd his active star: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And like the three-fork'd lightning, first ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Breaking the clouds where it was nurst, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Did thorough his own side ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "His fiery way divide: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For 'tis all one to courage high, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The emulous, or enemy; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And with such, to enclose ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Is more than to oppose. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then burning through the air he went ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And palaces and temples rent; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And Cæsar's head at last ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Did through his laurels blast. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "'Tis madness to resist or blame ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The face of angry Heaven's flame; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And if we would speak true, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Much to the man is due, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who, from his private gardens, where ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He lived reservéd and austere ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "(As if his highest plot ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To plant the bergamot), ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Could by industrious valour climb ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To ruin the great work of time, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And cast the Kingdoms old ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Into another mould; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Though Justice against Fate complain, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And plead the ancient rights in vain— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But those do hold or break ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As men are strong or weak— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nature, that hateth emptiness, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Allows of penetration less, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And therefore must make room ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where greater spirits come. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What field of all the civil war ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where his were not the deepest scar? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And Hampton shows what part ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He had of wiser art; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where, twining subtle fears with hope, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He wove a net of such a scope ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That Charles himself might chase ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To Caresbrooke's narrow case; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That thence the Royal actor borne ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The tragic scaffold might adorn: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "While round the arméd bands ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Did clap their bloody hands. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He nothing common did or mean ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Upon that memorable scene, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But with his keener eye ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The axe's edge did try; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor call'd the gods, with vulgar spite, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To vindicate his helpless right; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But bow'd his comely head ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Down, as upon a bed. ", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This was that memorable hour ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which first assured the forcéd power: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "So when they did design ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The Capitol's first line, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A Bleeding Head, where they begun, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Did fright the architects to run; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And yet in that the State ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Foresaw its happy fate! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And now the Irish are ashamed ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To see themselves in one year tamed: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "So much one man can do ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That does both act and know. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They can affirm his praises best, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And have, though overcome, confest ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "How good he is, how just ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And fit for highest trust. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor yet grown stiffer with command, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But still in the republic's hand— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "How fit he is to sway ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That can so well obey! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He to the Commons' feet presents ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A Kingdom for his first year's rents, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And, what he may, forbears ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "His fame, to make it theirs: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And has his sword and spoils ungirt ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To lay them at the public's skirt. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "So when the falcon high ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Falls heavy from the sky, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She, having kill'd, no more doth search ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But on the next green bough to perch; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where, when he first does lure, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The falconer has her sure. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What may not then our Isle presume ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While victory his crest does plume? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "What may not others fear, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "If thus he crowns each year? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As Cæsar he, ere long, to Gaul, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To Italy an Hannibal, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And to all States not free ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Shall climacteric be. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Pict no shelter now shall find ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Within his particolour'd mind, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But, from this valour, sad ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Shrink underneath the plaid; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Happy, if in the tufted brake ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The English hunter him mistake, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Nor lay his hounds in near ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The Caledonian deer. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But thou, the war's and fortune's son, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "March indefatigably on; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And for the last effect, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Still keep the sword erect: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Besides the force it has to fright ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The spirits of the shady night, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The same arts that did gain ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A power, must it maintain.", "") ?>
Poet("Andrew Marvell", "1621–1678") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>