ODE
to
the
Hon.
C.
Y.
By
the
Same
.
CHARLES
,
son
of
Yorke
,
who
on
the
mercy-seat
Of
justice
states
the
bounds
of
right
and
wrong
;
Not
like
the
vulgar
law-bewilder'd
throng
,
Who
in
the
maze
of
error
,
hope
to
meet
Truth
,
or
hope
rather
to
delude
with
lies
And
airy
phantoms
,
under
truth's
disguise
.
Some
wrapt
in
precedents
,
or
points
decreed
,
Or
lop
or
stretch
the
laws
to
forms
precise
:
Some
,
who
the
pedantry
of
rules
despise
,
Plain
sense
adopt
,
from
legal
fetters
freed
;
Sense
without
science
,
fleeting
,
unconfin'd
,
Is
empty
guess
,
and
shifts
with
ev'ry
wind
.
But
he
,
thy
sire
,
with
more
discerning
toil
,
Rang'd
the
wide
field
,
sagacious
to
explore
Where
lay
dispers'd
or
hid
the
precious
ore
;
Then
form'd
into
a
whole
the
gather'd
spoil
,
Law
,
reason
,
equity
,
which
now
unite
,
Reflecting
each
on
each
a
friendly
light
.
Blest
in
a
guide
,
a
pattern
so
compleat
,
Tread
,
as
thou
do'st
his
footsteps
;
for
not
rude
Thy
genius
,
not
uncultur'd
,
unsubdu'd
.
Yet
there
are
intervals
and
seasons
meet
,
To
smooth
the
brow
of
thought
;
nor
thou
disdain
Fit
hour
of
vacance
with
the
Muse's
train
.
Let
meaner
spirits
,
cast
in
common
mould
,
Who
feed
on
husks
of
learned
lore
,
refuse
To
hear
the
lessons
of
the
warbling
Muse
;
Nor
know
that
bards
,
the
law-givers
of
old
,
By
soothing
song
to
moral
truth
beguil'd
Man
,
till
then
fierce
,
a
lawless
race
,
and
wild
.
What
means
the
lyre
,
by
which
the
fabled
sage
Drew
beasts
to
listen
,
and
made
rocks
advance
Around
him
as
he
play'd
,
in
mystick
dance
?
What
,
but
the
Muse
?
who
soften'd
human
rage
.
Parent
of
concord
,
she
prepar'd
the
plan
Of
social
life
,
and
man
attun'd
to
man
.
She
taught
the
sphere
to
move
in
fair
array
,
Each
in
their
orbits
heark'ning
to
her
strain
;
Else
would
they
wander
o'er
th'
etherial
plain
Licentious
,
but
that
she
directs
their
way
:
She
aw'd
to
temper
,
by
her
magick
spell
,
The
warring
elements
,
and
powers
of
hell
.
They
err
,
who
think
the
MUSES
not
ally'd
To
THEMIS
;
both
are
of
celestial
birth
:
Both
give
peace
,
order
,
harmony
to
earth
;
Both
by
one
heav'nly
fountain
are
supply'd
;
And
men
and
angels
hymn
,
in
general
quire
,
What
law
ordains
,
and
what
the
NINE
inspire
.