The Temple of Fame.
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Fair Virtue's silent Train: Supreme of these
Here ever shines the Godlike Socrates.
Here triumphs He whom Athens did expel,
In all things Just, but when he sign'd the Shell.
Here his Abode the martyr'd Phocion claims,
With Agis, not the last of Spartan Names:
Unconquer'd Cato shews the Wound he tore,
And Brutus his ill Genius meets no more.
But in the Centre of the hallow'd Quire
Six pompous Column's o'er the rest aspire;
Around the Shrine it self of Fame they stand,
Hold the chief Honours, and the Fane command.
High on the first, the mighty Homer shone;
Eternal Adamant compos'd his Throne;
Father
