Oxford prize poems: being a collection of such English poems as have at various times obtained prizes in the University of Oxford.

Date:
1808
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Oxford prize poems: being a collection of such English poems as have at various times obtained prizes in the University of Oxford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE CONQUEST OF QUEBEC. ’E7rt(Tra(T0E yap Sfirrov 'ori ovre nXfjOog eariv, ovre »; Iv T(p iroXepip rig v'lKag Trotouira* aXX’ OTTorepoi av avv Toig Qedig ra~ig \pvxalg Ippbiptvkaripoi ioktiv IttI rovg TroXtpiovg. —Xenoph. Cyri Exped. lib. iii. Farewell, ye Naiads, who your tresses lave Where Isis rolls her unpolluted wave: Far off to regions unexplor’d I fly. To savage nations and a frozen sky; Where the Laurentian stream his copious stores In whitening torrents to th'Atlantic pours; Where never echo his steep banks along Heard the sweet accents of a Muse’s song; But shouts of barb’rous dissonance resound, And blood of warriors bathes the reeking ground. Long time the bashful Muse, content to stray Where list’ning swains approv’d her simple lay. By art untutor’d, and unknown to feme. Had learnt to warble only Delia's name; B