minister, attributing that royal hog's late escape from a storm at sea to the miraculous influence of his grand and virtuous soul—for George, he says, rivals the angels:
"George, who in foes can soft affections raise,
And charm envenom'd satire into praise.
Nor human rage alone his pow'r perceives,
But the mad winds and the tumultuous waves,
Ev'n storms (Death's fiercest ministers!) forbear,
And in their own wild empire learn to spare.
Thus, Nature's self, supporting Man's decree,
Styles Britain's sovereign, sovereign of the sea."
As for "Walpole, what he felt at this tremendous crisis
"No powers of language, but his own, can tell,
His own, which Nature and the Graces form,
At will, to raise, or hush, the civil storm.
It is a coincidence worth noticing, that this seventh Satire was published in 1726, and that the warrant of George the First, granting Young a pension of £200 a year from Lady-day, 1725, is dated May 3d, 1726. The gratitude exhibited in this Satire may have been chiefly prospective, but the "Instalment," a poem inspired by the thrilling event of Walpole's installation as Knight of the Garter, was clearly written with the double ardor of a man who has got a pension and hopes for something more. His emotion about Walpole is precisely at the same pitch as his subsequent emotion about the Second Advent. In the "Instalment" he says:
"With invocations some their hearts inflame;
I need no muse, a Walpole is my theme."
And of God coming to judgment, he says, in the "Night Thoughts:"
"I find my inspiration is my theme;
The grandeur of my subject is my muse."
