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'Twas at the royal feast for Persia won	A
By Philip's warlike son	A
Aloft in awful state	B
The godlike hero sate	B
On his imperial throne	C
His valiant peers were placed around	D
Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound	D
So should desert in arms be crowned	D
The lovely Thais by his side	E
Sate like a blooming eastern bride	E
In flower of youth and beauty's pride	E
Happy happy happy pair	F
None but the brave	G
None but the brave	G
None but the brave deserves the fair	F
	-
Timotheus placed on high	H
Amid the tuneful quire	I
With flying fingers touched the lyre	I
The trembling notes ascend the sky	H
And heavenly joys inspire	I
The song began from Jove	H
Who left his blissful seats above	H
Such is the power of mighty love	H
A dragon's fiery form belied the god	J
Sublime on radiant spires he rode	K
When he to fair Olympia prest	L
And while he sought her snowy breast	L
Then round her slender waist he curled	M
And stamped an image of himself a sovereign of the world	M
The listening crowd admire the lofty sound	D
A present deity they shout around	D
A present deity the vaulted roofs rebound	D
With ravished ears	N
The monarch hears	O
Assumes the god	J
Affects to nod	J
And seems to shake the spheres	N
	-
The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung	P
Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young	P
The jolly god in triumph comes	Q
Sound the trumpets beat the drums	Q
Flushed with a purple grace	R
He shows his honest face	R
Now give the hautboys breath he comes he comes	Q
Bacchus ever fair and young	P
Drinking joys did first ordain	S
Bacchus' blessings are a treasure	T
Drinking is the soldier's pleasure	T
Rich the treasure	T
Sweet the pleasure	T
Sweet is pleasure after pain	S
	-
Soothed with the sound the king grew vain	S
Fought all his battles o'er again	U
And thrice he routed all his foes and thrice he slew the slain	S
The master saw the madness rise	V
His glowing cheeks his ardent eyes	V
And while he Heaven and Earth defied	E
Changed his hand and checked his pride	E
He chose a mournful Muse	W
Soft pity to infuse	W
He sung Darius great and good	X
By too severe a fate	B
Fallen fallen fallen fallen	A
Fallen from his high estate	B
And weltering in his blood	Y
Deserted at his utmost need	Z
By those his former bounty fed	A2
On the bare earth exposed he lies	V
With not a friend to close his eyes	V
With downcast looks the joyless victor sate	B
Revolving in his altered soul	B2
The various turns of Chance below	C2
And now and then a sigh he stole	B2
And tears began to flow	C2
	-
The mighty master smiled to see	D2
That love was in the next degree	D2
'Twas but a kindred sound to move	H
For pity melts the mind to love	H
Softly sweet in Lydian measures	E2
Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures	E2
War he sung is toil and trouble	F2
Honour but an empty bubble	F2
Never ending still beginning	G2
Fighting still and still destroying	G2
If the world be worth thy winning	G2
Think O think it worth enjoying	G2
Lovely Thais sits beside thee	D2
Take the good the gods provide thee	D2
The many rend the skies with loud applause	H2
So Love was crowned but Music won the cause	I2
The prince unable to conceal his pain	S
Gazed on the fair	F
Who caused his care	F
And sighed and looked sighed and looked	J2
Sighed and looked and sighed again	U
At length with love and wine at once opprest	J2
The vanquished victor sunk upon her breast	J2
	-
Now strike the golden lyre again	U
A louder yet and yet a louder strain	S
Break his bands of sleep asunder	T
	-
And rouse him like a rattling peal of thunder	T
Hark hark the horrid sound	J2
Has raised up his head	J2
As awaked from the dead	J2
And amazed he stares around	J2
Revenge revenge Timotheus cries	V
See the Furies arisel	F2
See the snakes that they rear	K2
How they hiss in their hair	F
And the sparkles that flash from their eyes	V
Behold a ghastly band	J2
Each a torch in his hand	J2
Those are Grecian ghosts that in battle were slain	S
And unburied remain	S
Inglorious on the plain	S
Give the vengeance due	J2
To the valiant crew	J2
Behold how they toss their torches on high	H
How they point to the Persian abodes	V
And glittering temples of their hostile gods	V
The princes applaud with a furious joy	L2
And the King seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy	L2
Thais led the way	M2
To light him to his prey	M2
And like another Helen fired another Troy	L2
	-
Thus long ago	C2
Ere heaving bellows learned to blow	C2
While organs yet were mute	J2
Timotheus to his breathing flute	J2
And sounding lyre	I
Could swell the soul to rage or kindle soft desire	T
At last divine Cecilia came	N2
Inventress of the vocal frame	N2
The sweet enthusiast from her sacred store	O2
Enlarged the former narrow bounds	V
And added length to solemn sounds	V
With Nature's mother wit and arts unknown before	O2
Let old Timotheus yield the prize	V
Or both divide the crown	P2
He raised a mortal to the skies	V
She drew an angel down	P2

John Dryden

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