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

Lettered on inlaid page: "A PINDARIC ODE. 87 | II. 2. | In climes beyond the solar road, | Where shaggy forms o’er ice-built mountains | roam, | The Muse has broke the twilight gloom, | To cheer the shiv’ring native’s dull abode. | And oft beneath the od’rous shade | Of Chili’s boundless forests laid, | She deigns to hear the savage youth repeat | In loose numbers wildly sweet | Their feather-cinctur’d chiefs, and dusky loves. | Her track, where-e’er the Goddess roves, | Glory pursue, and gen’rous Shame, | Th’ unconquerable mind, and Freedom’s holy | flame. | II. 3. | Woods that wave o’er Delphi’s steep | Isles, that crown th’ Egean deep, | Fields,"; Lettered on verso, on inlaid page: "88 THE PROGRESS OF POESY. | Fields, that cool Ilissus laves, | Or where Maeander’s amber waves | In lingering lab’rinths creep, | How do your tuneful echoes languish, | Mute, but to the voice of Anguish? | Where each old poetic mountain | Inspiration breath’d around; | Ev’ry shade and hallow’d fountain | Murmur’d deep a solemn sound: | Till the sad Nine, in Greece’s evil hour, | Left their Parnassus for the Latian plains. | Alike they scorn the pomp of tyrant Power, | And coward Vice, that revels in her chains. | When Latium had her lofty spirit lost, | They sought, oh Albion! next thy sea-en- | circled coast. | III. 1."