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I	A
Once more I join the Thespian choir	B
And taste the inspiring fount again	C
O parent of the Grecian lyre	D
Admit me to thy powerful strain	E
And lo with ease my step invades	F
The pathless vale and opening shades	F
Till now I spy her verdant seat	G
And now at large i drink the sound	H
While these her offspring listening round	H
By turns her melody repeat	G
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I	A
I see Anacreon smile and sing	I
His silver tresses breathe perfume	J
His cheek displays a second spring	I
Of roses taught by wine to bloom	J
Away deceitful cares away	K
And let me listen to his lay	K
Let me the wanton pomp injoy	L
While in smooth dance the light wing'd Hours	M
Lead round his lyre it's patron powers	M
Kind laughter and convivial joy	L
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I	A
Broke from the fetters of his native land	N
Devoting shame and vengeance to her lords	O
With louder impulse and a threatening hand	N
The Lesbian patriot smites the sounding chords	O
Ye wretches ye perfidious train	E
Ye curs'd of gods and freeborn men	C
Ye murderers of the laws	P
Though now ye glory in your lust	Q
Though now ye tread the feeble neck in dust	Q
Yet Time and righteous Jove will judge your dreadful cause	R
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II	A
But lo to Sappho's melting airs	S
Descends the radiant queen of love	T
She smiles and asks what fonder cares	S
Her suppliant's plaintive measures move	U
Why is my faithful maid distress'd	V
Who Sappho wounds thy tender breast	V
Say flies he Soon he shall pursue	W
Shuns he thy gifts He soon shall give	X
Slights he thy sorrows He shall grieve	Y
And soon to all thy wishes bow	Z
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II	A
But o Melpomene for whom	J
Awakes thy golden shell again	C
What mortal breath shall e'er presume	J
To echo that unbounded strain	E
Majestic in the frown of years	A2
Behold the man of Thebes appears	A2
For some there are whose mighty frame	B2
The hand of Jove at birth indow'd	V
With hopes that mock the gazing crowd	V
As eagles drink the noontide flame	B2
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II	A
While the dim raven beats her weary wings	C2
And clamours far below Propitious Muse	D2
While I so late unlock thy purer springs	C2
And breathe whate'er thy ancient airs infuse	D2
Wilt thou for Albion's sons around	V
Ne'er had'st thou audience more renown'd	V
Thy charming arts imploy	K
As when the winds from shore to shore	E2
Through Greece thy lyre's persuasive language bore	E2
Till towns and isles and seas return'd the vocal joy	L
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III	A
Yet then did pleasure's lawless throng	F2
Oft rushing forth in loose attire	B
Thy virgin dance thy graceful song	F2
Pollute with impious revels dire	D
O fair o chaste thy echoing shade	V
May no soul discord here invade	V
Nor let thy strings one accent move	U
Except what earth's untroubled ear	G2
'Mid all her social tribes may hear	G2
And heaven's unerring throne approve	U
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III	A
Queen of the lyre in thy retreat	V
The fairest flowers of Pindus glow	K
The vine aspires to crown thy seat	V
And myrtles round thy laurel grow	K
Thy strings adapt their varied strain	E
To every pleasure every pain	E
Which mortal tribes were born to prove	U
And strait our passions rise or fall	K
As at the wind's imperious call	K
The ocean swells the billows move	U
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III	A
When midnight listens o'er the slumbering earth	H2
Let me o Muse thy solemn whispers hear	G2
When morning sends her fragrant breezes forth	I2
With airy murmurs touch my opening ear	G2
And ever watchful at thy side	V
Let wisdom's awful suffrage guide	V
The tenor of thy lay	K
To her of old by Jove was given	J2
To judge the various deeds of earth and heaven	J2
'Twas thine by gentle arts to win us to her sway	K
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IV	U
Oft as to well earn'd ease resign'd	V
I quit the maze where science toils	K2
Do thou refresh my yielding mind	V
With all thy gay delusive spoils	K2
But o indulgent come not nigh	U
The busy steps the jealous eye	U
Of wealthy care or gainful age	L
Whose barren souls thy joys disdain	E
And hold as foes to reason's reign	E
Whome'er thy lovely works engage	L
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IV	U
When friendship and when letter'd mirth	H2
Haply partake my simple board	V
Then let thy blameless hand call forth	I2
The music of the Teian chord	V
Or if invok'd at softer hours	M
O seek with me the happy bowers	M
That hear Olympia's gentle tongue	L2
To beauty link'd with virtue's train	E
To love devoid of jealous pain	E
There let the Sapphic lute be strung	L2
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IV	U
But when from envy and from death to claim	B2
A hero bleeding for his native land	V
When to throw incense on the vestal flame	B2
Of liberty my genius gives command	V
Nor Theban voice nor Lesbian lyre	D
From thee o Muse do I require	B
While my presaging mind	V
Conscious of powers she never knew	W
Astonish'd grasps at things beyond her view	W
Nor by another's fate submits to be confin'd	V

Mark Akenside

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