oon called away from this lower world, to a place where
human praise or human flattery, even less general than this, are of
little consequence. If Young thought the dedication contained only the
praise of truth, he should not have omitted it in his works. Was he
conscious of the exaggeration of party? Then he should not have
written it. The poem itself is not without a glance towards politics,
notwithstanding the subject. The cry that the Church was in danger had
not yet subsided. The "Last Day," written by a layman, was much approved
by the ministry and their friends.

Before the queen's death, "The Force of Religion, or Vanquished Love,"
was sent into the world. This poem is founded on the execution of Lady
Jane Grey and her husband, Lord Guildford, 1554, a story chosen for
the subject of a tragedy by Edmund Smith, and wrought into a tragedy by
Rowe. The dedication of it to the Countess of Salisbury does not appear
in his own edition. He hopes it may be some excuse for his presumption
that the story could not have been read without thoughts of the Countess
of Salisbury, though it had been dedicated to another. "To behold,"
he proceeds, "a person ONLY virtuous, stirs in us a prudent regret; to
behold a person ONLY amiable to the sight, warms us with a religious
indignation; but to turn our eyes to a Countess of Salisbury, gives us
pleasure and improvement; it works a sort of miracle, occasions the
bias of our nature to fall off from sin, and makes our very senses and
affections converts to our religion, and promoters of our duty." His
flattery was as ready for the other sex as for ours, and was at least as
well adapted.

August the 27th, 1714, Pope writes to his friend Jervas, that he is just
arrived from Oxford; that every one is much concerned for the queen's
death, but that no panegyrics are ready yet for the king. Nothing like
friendship has yet taken place between Pope and Young, for, soon after
the event which Pope mentions, Young published a poem on the queen's
death, and his Majesty's accession to the throne. It is inscribed
to Addison, then secretary to the Lords Justices. Whatever were the
obligations which he had formerly received from Anne, the poet appears
to aim at something of the same sort from George. Of the poem the
intention seems to have been, to show that he had the same extravagant
strain of praise for a king as for a queen. To discover, at the very
onset of a foreigner's reign, that the gods ble