Forfook the Courts of everlasting Day, And chose with us a darkfom House of mortal Clay. III. Say Heav'nly Mufe, fhall not thy facred vein Haft thou no verse, no hymn, or folemn ftrain, Now while the Heav'n by the Sun's team untrod, Hath took no print of the approaching light, And all the spangled host keep watch in fquadrons IV. See how from far upon the Eastern rode [bright? The Star-led Wifards hafte with odours fweet Have thou the Honour firft, thy Lord to greet, From out his fecret Altar toucht with hallow'd fire. All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies; Nature in awe to him Had doff'd her gawdy trim, With her great Master so to sympathize: To wanton with the Sun her lufty Paramour. Only with speeches fair She wooes the gentle Air, To hide her guilty front with innocent Snow, And on her naked shame, Pollute with finful blame,' The Saintly Veil of Maiden white to throw; Confounded, that her Maker's eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities. III. But he her fears to cease, Sent down the meek-ey'd Peace; She, crown'd with Olive green, came foftly sliding Down through the turning sphear His ready Harbinger,.. With Turtle wing the amorous clouds dividing; And And waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes an univerfal Peace thro' Sea and Land. IV. No War, or Battel's found Was heard the World around, The idle spear and shield were high up hung; The hooked Chariot stood Unftain'd with hostile blood, The Trumpet spake not to the armed throng; And Kings fat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sov'rain Lord was by. V. But peaceful was the night, Wherein the Prince of light His reign of peace upon the earth began: The Winds with wonder whift, Smoothly the waters kift, Whispering new joys to the mild Ocean, Who now hath quite forgot to rave, While Birds of Calm fit brooding on the charmed Bending one way their precious influence; And will not take their flight, For all the morning light, Or Lucifer that often warn'd them thence; But in their glimmering Orbs did glow, Until their Lord himself befpake, and bid them go. VII. And though the shady gloom Had given day her room, The Sun himself with-held his wonted fpeed, And hid his head for shame, The Shepherds on the Lawn, Or ere the point of dawn, Sat fimply chatting in a rustick row; Full little thought they then, That the mighty Pan t [bear. Was kindly come to live with them below: Perhaps Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, Was all that did their filly thoughts fo busy keep. IX. When fuch mufick sweet Their hearts and ears did greet, As never was by mortal finger ftrook: Divinely warbled voice Answering the stringed noise, As all their Souls in blissful rapture took : The Air such pleasure loth to lose, With thousand echo's ftill prolongs each heav'nly X. Nature that heard fuch found Beneath the hollow round Of Cynthia's feat, the airy region thrilling, Now was almost won To think her part was done, [close. And that her reign had here its last fulfilling; She knew fuch harmony alone Could hold all Heav'n and Earth in happier union. XI. At laft furrounds their fight A Globe of circular light, That |