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urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.1	head	The Progress of Poesy. A Pindaric Ode
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.2	p	ϕωνᾶντα συνετοῖσιν· ἐς<lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />δὲ τὸ πᾶν ἑρμηνέων χατίζει.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.3	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.3.1	head	I.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.3.2	head	1
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.3.3	l	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.3.3.1	l	Awake [up], my glory: awake, lute and harp.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.3.4	l	And give to rapture all thy trembling strings.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.3.5	l	From Helicon's harmonious springs<note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="bottom">The subject and simile, as usual with Pindar, are united. The various sources of poetry, which gives life and lustre to all it touches, are here described; its quiet majestic progress enriching every subject (otherwise dry and barren) with a pomp of diction and luxuriant harmony of numbers; and its more rapid and irresistible course, when swoln and hurried away by the conflict of tumultuous passions. </note>
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.3.6	l	A thousand rills their mazy progress take:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.3.7	l	The laughing flowers, that round them blow,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.3.8	l	Drink life and fragrance as they flow.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.3.9	l	Now the rich stream of music winds along,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.3.10	l	Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.3.11	l	Through verdant vales and Ceres' golden reign:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.3.12	l	Now rowling down the steep amain,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.3.13	l	Headlong, impetuous, see it pour:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.3.14	l	The rocks and nodding groves rebellow to the roar.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.4	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.4.1	head	I.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.4.2	head	2
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.4.3	l	Oh! Sovereign of the willing soul,<note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="bottom">Power of harmony to calm the turbulent sallies of the soul. The thoughts are borrowed from the first Pythian of Pindar. [See note to l. 20.] </note>
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.4.4	l	Parent of sweet and solemn-breathing airs,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.4.5	l	Enchanting shell! the sullen Cares
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.4.6	l	And frantic Passions hear thy soft control.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.4.7	l	On Thracia's hills the Lord of War,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.4.8	l	Has curbed the fury of his car,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.4.9	l	And dropped his thirsty lance at thy command.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.4.10	l	Perching on the sceptered hand<note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="bottom">This is a weak imitation of some incomparable lines in the same Ode. [<bibl>Pindar, <emph>Pythian Ode I</emph>, 1-12.</bibl>] </note>
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.4.11	l	Of Jove, thy magic lulls the feathered king
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.4.12	l	With ruffled plumes and flagging wing:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.4.13	l	Quenched in dark clouds of slumber lie
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.4.14	l	The terror of his beak, and lightnings of his eye.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.5	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.5.1	head	I.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.5.2	head	3
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.5.3	l	Thee the voice, the dance, obey,<note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="bottom">Power of harmony to produce all the graces of motion in the body. </note>
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.5.4	l	Tempered to thy warbled lay.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.5.5	l	O'er Idalia's velvet-green
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.5.6	l	The rosy-crowned Loves are seen
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.5.7	l	On Cytherea's day
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.5.8	l	With antic Sports and blue-eyed Pleasures,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.5.9	l	Frisking light in frolic measures;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.5.10	l	Now pursuing, now retreating,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.5.11	l	Now in circling troops they meet:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.5.12	l	To brisk notes in cadence beating
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.5.13	l	Glance their many-twinkling feet.<note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="bottom"> <q>[Greek line (omitted)] [He (Odysseus) gazed at the quick twinkling of (the dancers') feet; and he wondered in his heart.]</q> <bibl>Homer. Od[yssey]. O. [viii. 265]</bibl> </note>
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.5.14	l	Slow melting strains their queen's approach declare:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.5.15	l	Where'er she turns the Graces homage pay.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.5.16	l	With arms sublime, that float upon the air,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.5.17	l	In gliding state she wins her easy way:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.5.18	l	O'er her warm cheek and rising bosom move
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.5.19	l	The bloom of young desire and purple light of love.<note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="bottom"> <q>[Greek line (omitted)] [And on his rose-red cheeks there gleams the light of love.]</q> <bibl>Phrynichus, apud Athenaeum. [<emph>Deipnosophistae</emph>, xiii. 604a]</bibl> <lb /> [Modern texts give the line as follows: Greek line (omitted).] </note>
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.6	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.6.1	head	II.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.6.2	head	1
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.6.3	l	Man's feeble race what ills await,<note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="bottom">To compensate the real and imaginary ills of life, the Muse was given to Mankind by the same Providence that sends the Day by its chearful presence to dispel the gloom and terrors of the Night. </note>
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.6.4	l	Labour, and penury, the racks of pain,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.6.5	l	Disease, and sorrow's weeping train,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.6.6	l	And death, sad refuge from the storms of fate!
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.6.7	l	The fond complaint, my song, disprove,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.6.8	l	And justify the laws of Jove.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.6.9	l	Say, has he given in vain the heavenly Muse?
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.6.10	l	Night, and all her sickly dews,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.6.11	l	Her spectres wan, and birds of boding cry,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.6.12	l	He gives to range the dreary sky:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.6.13	l	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.6.13.1	l	Or seen the Morning's well-appointed Star
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.6.13.2	l	Come marching up the eastern hills afar.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.6.14	l	Hyperion's march they spy, and glittering shafts of war.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.7	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.7.1	head	II.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.7.2	head	2
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.7.3	l	In climes beyond the solar road,<note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="bottom">Extensive influence of poetic Genius over the remotest and most uncivilized nations: its connection with liberty, and the virtues that naturally attend on it. <emph>[</emph>See the Erse, Norwegian, and Welch Fragments, the Lapland and American songs.<emph>]</emph> <lb /> [<emph>solar road</emph>]<lb /> <q>''Extra anni solisque vias—'' [Beyond the paths of the year and the sun—]</q> <bibl> <emph>Virgil. [Aeneid, vi. 796]</emph> </bibl> <q>''Tutta lontana dal camin del sole.'' [Quite far from the road of the sun.]</q> <bibl> <emph>Petrarch, Canzon 2. [Canzoniere, 'Canzone II', l. 48]</emph> </bibl> </note>
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.7.4	l	Where shaggy forms o'er ice-built mountains roam,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.7.5	l	The Muse has broke the twilight-gloom
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.7.6	l	To cheer the shivering native's dull abode.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.7.7	l	And oft, beneath the odorous shade
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.7.8	l	Of Chile's boundless forests laid,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.7.9	l	She deigns to hear the savage youth repeat
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.7.10	l	In loose numbers wildly sweet
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.7.11	l	Their feather-cinctured chiefs, and dusky loves.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.7.12	l	Her track, where'er the goddess roves,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.7.13	l	Glory pursue, and generous Shame,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.7.14	l	The unconquerable Mind, and Freedom's holy flame.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.8	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.8.1	head	II.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.8.2	head	3
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.8.3	l	Woods that wave o'er Delphi's steep,<note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="bottom">Progress of Poetry from Greece to Italy, and from Italy to England. Chaucer was not unacquainted with the writings of Dante or of Petrarch. The Earl of Surrey and Sir Tho. Wyatt had travelled in Italy, and formed their taste there; Spenser imitated the Italian writers; Milton improved on them: but this School expired soon after the Restoration, and a new one arose on the French model, which has subsisted ever since. </note>
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.8.4	l	Isles that crown the Aegean deep,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.8.5	l	Fields that cool Ilissus laves,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.8.6	l	Or where Maeander's amber waves
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.8.7	l	In lingering lab'rinths creep,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.8.8	l	How do your tuneful echoes languish,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.8.9	l	Mute, but to the voice of anguish?
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.8.10	l	Where each old poetic mountain
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.8.11	l	Inspiration breathed around:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.8.12	l	Every shade and hallowed fountain
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.8.13	l	Murmured deep a solemn sound:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.8.14	l	Till the sad Nine in Greece's evil hour
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.8.15	l	Left their Parnassus for the Latian plains.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.8.16	l	Alike they scorn the pomp of tyrant-power,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.8.17	l	And coward Vice that revels in her chains.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.8.18	l	When Latium had her lofty spirit lost,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.8.19	l	They sought, oh Albion! next thy sea-encircled coast.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.9	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.9.1	head	III.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.9.2	head	1
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.9.3	l	Far from the sun and summer-gale,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.9.4	l	In thy green lap was Nature's darling<note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="bottom"> [<emph>Nature's Darling</emph>] Shakespear. </note> laid,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.9.5	l	What time, where lucid Avon strayed,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.9.6	l	To him the mighty Mother did unveil
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.9.7	l	Her awful face: the dauntless child
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.9.8	l	Stretched forth his little arms and smiled.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.9.9	l	'This pencil take,' (she said) 'whose colours clear
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.9.10	l	Richly paint the vernal year:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.9.11	l	Thine too these golden keys, immortal boy!
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.9.12	l	This can unlock the gates of joy;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.9.13	l	Of horror that, and thrilling fears,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.9.14	l	Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.'
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.10	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.10.1	head	III.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.10.2	head	2
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.10.3	l	Nor second he,<note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="bottom"> [<emph>He</emph>] Milton. </note> that rode sublime
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.10.4	l	Upon the seraph-wings of Ecstasy,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.10.5	l	The secrets of the abyss to spy.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.10.6	l	He passed the flaming bounds of place and time:<note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="bottom"> <q>''—flammantia moenia mundi.'' [—the flaming ramparts of the world].</q> <bibl> <emph>Lucretius.</emph> [<emph>De Rerum Natura</emph>, i. 74]</bibl> </note>
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.10.7	l	The living throne, the sapphire-blaze,<note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="bottom">For the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels - And above the firmament, that was over their heads, was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a saphire-stone. - This was the appearance [of the likeness] of the glory of the Lord.<lb /> <bibl> <emph>Ezekiel</emph> i. 20, 26, 28.</bibl> </note>
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.10.8	l	Where angels tremble while they gaze,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.10.9	l	He saw; but blasted with excess of light,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.10.10	l	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.10.10.1	l	[Greek line (omitted)] [(the Muse) took away (his) eyes, but she gave (him the gift of) sweet song].
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.10.11	l	Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.10.12	l	Wide o'er the fields of glory bear
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.10.13	l	Two coursers of ethereal race,<note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="bottom">Meant to express the stately march and sounding energy of Dryden's rhimes. </note>
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.10.14	l	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.10.14.1	l	Hast thou cloathed his neck with thunder?
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.11	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.11.1	head	III.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.11.2	head	3
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.11.3	l	Hark, his hands the lyre explore!
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.11.4	l	Bright-eyed Fancy hovering o'er
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.11.5	l	Scatters from her pictured urn
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.11.6	l	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.11.6.1	l	Words, that weep, and tears, that speak.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.11.7	l	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.11.7.1	l	Hark! heard ye not yon footstep dread? <emph xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">&c.</emph>
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.11.8	l	Oh! lyre divine, what daring spirit
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.11.9	l	Wakes thee now? Though he inherit
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.11.10	l	Nor the pride, nor ample pinion,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.11.11	l	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.11.11.1	l	[Greek line (omitted)] [against the god-like bird of Zeus].
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.11.12	l	Sailing with supreme dominion
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.11.13	l	Through the azure deep of air:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.11.14	l	Yet oft before his infant eyes would run
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.11.15	l	Such forms, as glitter in the Muse's ray
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.11.16	l	With orient hues, unborrowed of the sun:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.11.17	l	Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.11.18	l	Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.TheProgressofPoesyAPindaricOde.English.1716_pppo:1.11.19	l	Beneath the Good how far---but far above the Great.