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Inscribed in black ink upper right: "7"; in graphite center: "x"; on verso in black ink upper left: "8"; in graphite center: "+"

Lettered on inlaid page: "A PINDARIC ODE. 99 | 'Give ample room, and verge enough | 'The characters of hell to trace. | 'Mark the year, and mark the night, | 'When Severn shall re-echo with affright | 'The shrieks of death, thro' Berkley's roofs | 'that ring, | 'Shrieks of an agonizing King! | 'She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs, | 'That tear'st the bowels of thy mangled mate, | 'From thee be born, who o'er thy country | 'hangs | 'The scourge of Heav'n. What terrors | 'round him wait! | 'Amazement in his van, with slight combin'd, | 'And Sorrow's faded form, and Solitude | 'behind. | II. 2. | 'Mighty Victor, mighty Lord, | 'Low on his funeral couch he lies! | 'No"; Lettered on verso, on inlaid page: "100 THE BARD. | 'No pitying heart, no eye, afford | 'A tear to grace his obsequies. | 'Is the sable warrior fled? | 'Thy son is gone. He rests among the dead. | 'The swarm that in thy noon-tide beam were | born? | 'Gone to salute the rising Morn. [blows, | 'Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the zephyr | 'While proudly riding o'er the azure realm | 'In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; | 'Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm; | 'Regardless of the sweeping Whirlwind's sway, | 'That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his | 'evening-prey. | II. 3. | 'Fill high the sparkling bowl, | 'The rich repast prepare, | 'Rest of a crown, he yet may share the feast; | 'Close by the regal chair | 'Fell"