UNHAPPY Genius! plac'd, by partial Fate,
With a free spirit in a slavish state;
Where the reluctant Muse, oppress'd by kings,
Or droops in silence, or in fetters sings.
In vain thy dauntless fortitude hath borne
The bigot's furious zeal, and tyrant's scorn.
Why did'st thou safe from home-bred dangers steer?
Reserv'd to perish more ignobly here.
Thus, when the Julian tyrant's pride to swell
Rome with her POMPEY at Pharsalia fell,
The vanquish'd chief escap'd from CAESAR's hand
To die by ruffians in a foreign land.