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ENCE vain deluding joys,

The brood of folly without father bred,
How little you bested,a zavā to

Or fill the fixed mind with all your

toys;

Dwell in fome idle brain,

And fancies fond with gaudy shapes poffefs, As thick and numberless

As the gay motes that people the Sun beams, Or likeft hovering dreams,›

The fickle Penfioners of Morpheus' train. But hail! thou Goddess, fage and holy, Hail! divinest Melancholy,

Whofe Saintly visage is too bright

To hit the Senfe of human fight;
And therefore to our weaker view
O'er-laid with black, ftaid Wisdom'e hite
Black, but fuch as in esteem,

Prince Memnon's Sifter might beíeem;
Or that starr'd Ethiope Queen that strove
To fet her beauty's praise above

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To folitary Saturn bore; 1. tion à d
His daughter the (in Saturn's reign
Such mixture was not held a ftain)
Oft in glimmering bow'rs, and glades,
He met her, and in fecret fhades.
Of woody Ida's inmoft grove,

While yet there was no fear of Jove.
Come penfive. Nun, devout and pure,
Sober, ftedfaft, and demure,

All in robe of darkest grain,
Flowing with majestic train,
And fable stole of Cypress Lawn,
O'er thy decent shoulders drawn.

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Thy rapt foul fitting in thine eyes :*..
There held in holy paffion ftill,

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Forget thyself to Marble, till

With a fad leaden downward caft,

Thou fix them on the earth as faft: "

And join with thee calm Peace, and Quiet, ...

Spare Faft, that oft with Gods doth diet,

And hears the Mufes in a ring

Ay round about Jove's Altar fing;

And add to these retired Leisure,

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That in trim Gardens takes his pleasure.
But firft, and chiefeft, with thee bring

Him, that yon foars on golden wing,
Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne,
The Cherub Contemplation,

And the mute Silence hift along ;
'Lefs Philomel will deign a Song,

In her sweetest, faddeft plight,
Smoothing the rugged brow of night;
While Cynthia checks her Dragon yoke
Gently o'er th' accuftom'd Oak:

Sweet Bird, that shunn'st the noife of folly,
Most musical, moft melancholy!

Thee chauntrefs oft the Woods among
1 woo to hear thy Even-Song;
And miffing thee, I walk unseen
On the dry fmooth-fhaven Green,
To behold the wand'ring Moon,
Riding near her highest noon,
Like one that had been led aftray
Through the Heav'n's wide pathless way;
And oft, as if her head the bow'd,
Stooping through a fleecy cloud,
Oft on a Plat of rifing ground
I hear the far-off Curfeu found,
Over fome wide-water'd fhoar,
Swinging now with fullen roar.

Or if the Air will not permit,

Some still removed place will fit,
Where glowing Embers through the room

Teach light to counterfeit a gloom;

Far from all resort of mirth,

Save the Cricket on the hearth,

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What Worlds, or what vaft Regions hold"?
Th' immortal Mind, that hath forfookƏ MAT
Her mansion in this fleshly nooku as font sch
And of thofe Dæmons, that are found a dia d'W
In fire, air, flood, or under ground,3'te [ɔrodo tuÃ
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In fcepter'd Pall come fweeping by, on, no gabal
Prefenting Thebes or Pelops" line, 10th atanim dilW
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But, O fad Virgin, that thy powered ewobsûl ba
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Or bid the Soul of Orpheus hing

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Drew Iron tears down-Phito's cheeky, a trigal 10
And made Hell grant what Love did feelo qui szɔrit
Or call up him that left half tolænstig on 93aW
The Aory of Cambufeam bold,a 2'ye! vott um sbill
Of Camball, and of Algarfifen drow soH số slidW
And who had Canace to wife,
That own'd the virtuous Ring and Glaft,

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And of the wondrous Horfe of Brafs,
On which the Tartar King did ride;
And if ought elfe, great: Bards befide,
In fage and folemn tunes have fung, -
Of Turnies and of Trophies hung;
Of Forefts, and Inchantments drear,
Where more is meant than meets the ear,
Thus, night, oft fee me in thy pale career,
Till civil-fuited Morn appear,

Not trickt and frounc't, as he was wont,
With the Attick Bpy to hunt,

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But cherchef't in a comely Cloud,
While rocking Winds are piping loud,
Or usher'd with a shower still,
When the gust hath blown hit fill,
Ending on the qufsling Leaves,
With minute drops from off the Eaves.
And when the Sun begins to fling
His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring
To arched walks of twilight groves, t
And fhadows brown, that Sylvan loves,
Of Pine, or monumental Oak,

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Where the rude Ax with heaved ftroke
Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt ;

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Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt wo There in clofe covert by fome brook,

Where no profaner eye may look,

Hide me from Day's garish eye, Ama) to y

While the Bee with honied thigh,

That at her flow'ry work doth fing, '\

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