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Inscribed in black ink upper right: "11"; in graphite upper center: "+"; on verso in gray ink upper left: "12"; in graphite center: "+"

Lettered on inlaid page: "A PINDARIC ODE. 103 | III. 2. | 'Girt with many a Baron bold | 'Sublime their starry fronts they rear; | 'And gorgeous Dames, and Statesmen old | 'In bearded majesty, appear. | 'In the midst a form divine! | 'Her eye proclaims her of the Briton-line; | 'Her lion-port, her awe-commanding face, | 'Attempered sweet to virgin-grace. | 'What strings symphonious tremble in the air! | 'What strains of vocal transport round her play! | 'Hear from the grave, great Taliessin, hear; | 'They breathe a soul to animate thy clay. | 'Bright Rapture calls, and soaring, as she sings, | 'Waves in the eye of Heaven her many-co- | 'lour'd wings. | III."; Lettered on verso, on inlaid page: "104 THE BARD. | III. 3. | 'The verse adorn again | 'Fierce War, and faithful Love, | 'And Truth severe, by fairy Fiction drest. | 'In buskin'd measures move | 'Pale Grief, and pleasing pain, | 'With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast. | 'A voice, as of the cherub-choir, | 'Gales from blooming Eden bear; | 'And distant warblings lessen on my ear, | 'That lost in the long futurity expire. | 'Fond impious man, thinkst thou yon san- | 'guine cloud, | 'Rais'd by thy breath, has quench'd the orb | 'of day? | 'To-morrow he repairs the golden flood, | And warms the nations with redoubled ray. | 'Enough"