Intonsi montes, ipsæ jam carmina rupes,
Ipsa sonant arbusta, Deus, Deus ille Menalca. E. 5. ꝟ. 62,
Oh come and receive the mighty honours: The time draws nigh, O beloved offspring of the Gods, O great encrease of Jove! The uncultivated mountains send shouts of joy to the stars, the very rocks sing in verse, the very shrubs cry out, A God, a God!
Isaiah, Ch.40. ꝟ. 3, 4. The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord! make strait in the desart a high way for our God! Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall be made strait, and the rough places plain, Ch. 4. ꝟ. 23. Break forth into singing, ye mountains! O forest, and every tree therein! for the Lord hath redeemed Israel.
The Swain in barren deserts, &c.
Incultisque rubens pendebit sentibus uva;
Et duræ quercus sudabunt roscida mella.
The field shall grow yellow with ripen'd ears, and the red grape shall hang upon the wild brambles, and the hard Oaks shall distil honey like dew.
Isaiah, Ch. 35. ꝟ. 7. The parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land Springs of water: In the habitation where dragons lay, shall be grass and reeds and rushes. Ch. 55. ꝟ. 13. Instead of the thorn shall come up the firr-tree, and instead of the briar shall come up the myrtle-tree.
The lambs with wolves, &c.
Ubera, nec magnos metuent armenta leones ———
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