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With what attractive charms this goodly frame	A
Of nature touches the consenting hearts	B
Of mortal men and what the pleasing stores	C
Which beauteous imitation thence derives	D
To deck the poet's or the painter's toil	E
My verse unfolds Attend ye gentle powers	F
Of musical delight and while i sing	G
Your gifts your honours dance around my strain	H
Thou smiling queen of every tuneful breast	I
Indulgent Fancy from the fruitful banks	J
Of Avon whence thy rosy fingers cull	K
Fresh flowers and dews to sprinkle on the turf	L
Where Shakespeare lies be present and with thee	M
Let Fiction come upon her vagrant wings	N
Wafting ten thousand colours through the air	O
Which by the glances of her magic eye	P
She blends and shifts at will through countless forms	Q
Her wild creation Goddess of the lyre	R
Which rules the accents of the moving sphere	S
Wilt thou eternal Harmony descend	T
And join this festive train for with thee comes	U
The guide the guardian of their lovely sports	V
Majestic Truth and where Truth deigns to come	W
Her sister Liberty will not be far	X
Be present all ye Genii who conduct	Y
The wandering footsteps of the youthful bard	Z
New to your springs and shades who touch his ear	A2
With finer sounds who heighten to his eye	P
The bloom of nature and before him turn	B2
The gayest happiest attitude of things	N
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Oft have the laws of each poetic strain	H
The critic verse imploy'd yet still unsung	C2
Lay this prime subject though importing most	D2
A poet's name for fruitless is the attempt	E2
By dull obedience and by creeping toil	E
Obscure to conquer the severe ascent	F2
Of high Parnassus Nature's kindling breath	G2
Must fire the chosen genius nature's hand	H2
Must string his nerves and imp his eagle wings	N
Impatient of the painful steep to soar	I2
High as the summit there to breathe at large	J2
thereal air with bards and sages old	K2
Immortal sons of praise These flattering scenes	L2
To this neglected labour court my song	M2
Yet not unconscious what a doubtful task	N2
To paint the finest features of the mind	O2
And to most subtile and mysterious things	N
Give colour strength and motion But the love	P2
Of nature and the muses bids explore	I2
Through secret paths erewhile untrod by man	Q2
The fair poetic region to detect	R2
Untasted springs to drink inspiring draughts	S2
And shade my temples with unfading flowers	F
Cull'd from the laureate vale's profound recess	T2
Where never poet gain'd a wreath before	I2
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From heaven my strains begin from heaven descends	U2
The flame of genius to the human breast	I
And love and beauty and poetic joy	V2
And inspiration Ere the radiant sun	W2
Sprang from the east or 'mid the vault of night	X2
The moon suspended her serener lamp	Y2
Ere mountains woods or streams adorn'd the globe	Z2
Or wisdom taught the sons of men her lore	I2
Then liv'd the almighty One then deep retir'd	A3
In his unfathom'd essence view'd the forms	Q
The forms eternal of created things	N
The radiant sun the moon's nocturnal lamp	Y2
The mountains woods and streams the rowling globe	Z2
And wisdom's mien celestial From the first	B3
Of days on them his love divine he fix'd	C3
His admiration till in time compleat	C3
What he admir'd and lov'd his vital smile	D3
Unfolded into being Hence the breath	G2
Of life informing each organic frame	A
Hence the green earth and wild resounding waves	E3
Hence light and shade alternate warmth and cold	C3
And clear autumnal skies and vernal showers	F
And all the fair variety of things	N
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But not alike to every mortal eye	P
Is this great scene unveil'd For since the claims	F3
Of social life to different labours urge	G3
The active powers of man with wise intent	C3
The hand of nature on peculiar minds	H3
Imprints a different byass and to each	I3
Decrees its province in the common toil	E
To some she taught the fabric of the sphere	S
The changeful moon the circuit of the stars	J3
The golden zones of heaven to some she gave	K3
To weigh the moment of eternal things	N
Of time and space and fate's unbroken chain	H
And will's quick impulse others by the hand	C3
She led o'er vales and mountains to explore	I2
What healing virtue swells the tender veins	L3
Of herbs and flowers or what the beams of morn	M3
Draw forth distilling from the clifted rind	C3
In balmy tears But some to higher hopes	N3
Were destin'd some within a finer mould	C3
She wrought and temper'd with a purer flame	A
To these the sire omnipotent unfolds	O3
The world's harmonious volume there to read	C3
The transcript of himself On every part	C3
They trace the bright impressions of his hand	C3
In earth or air the meadow's purple stores	C
The moon's mild radiance or the virgin's form	P3
Blooming with rosy smiles they see portray'd	C3
That uncreated beauty which delights	Q3
The mind supreme They also feel her charms	R3
Enamour'd they partake the eternal joy	V2
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For as old Memnon's image long renown'd	C3
By fabling Nilus to the quivering touch	S3
Of Titan's ray with each repulsive string	G
Consenting sounded through the warbling air	O
Unbidden strains even so did nature's hand	C3
To certain species of external things	N
Attune the finer organs of the mind	C3
So the glad impulse of congenial powers	F
Or of sweet sound or fair proportion'd form	P3
The grace of motion or the bloom of light	C3
Thrills through imagination's tender frame	A
From nerve to nerve all naked and alive	T3
They catch the spreading rays till now the soul	U3
At length discloses every tuneful spring	G
To that harmonious movement from without	C3
Responsive Then the inexpressive strain	H
Diffuses its inchantment fancy dreams	V3
Of sacred fountains and Elysian groves	W3
And vales of bliss the intellectual power	X3
Bends from his awful throne a wondering ear	A2
And smiles the passions gently sooth'd away	Y3
Sink to divine repose and love and joy	V2
Alone are waking love and joy serene	Z3
As airs that fan the summer O attend	C3
Whoe'er thou art whom these delights can touch	S3
Whose candid bosom the refining love	P2
Of nature warms o listen to my song	M2
And i will guide thee to her favourite walks	A4
And teach thy solitude her voice to hear	A2
And point her loveliest features to thy view	B4
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Know then whate'er of nature's pregnant stores	C
Whate'er of mimic art's reflected forms	Q
With love and admiration thus inflame	A
The powers of fancy her delighted sons	C4
To three illustrious orders have referr'd	C3
Three sister graces whom the painter's hand	C3
The poet's tongue confesses the sublime	D4
The wonderful the fair I see them dawn	E4
I see the radiant visions where they rise	F4
More lovely than when Lucifer displays	G4
His beaming forehead through the gates of morn	M3
To lead the train of Ph bus and the spring	G
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Say why was man so eminently rais'd	C3
Amid the vast creation why ordain'd	C3
Through life and death to dart his piercing eye	P
With thoughts beyond the limit of his frame	A
But that the omnipotent might send him forth	H4
In sight of mortal and immortal powers	F
As on a boundless theatre to run	W2
The great career of justice to exalt	C3
His generous aim to all diviner deeds	I4
To chase each partial purpose from his breast	C3
And through the mists of passion and of sense	J4
And through the tossing tide of chance and pain	H
To hold his course unfaultering while the voice	K4
Of truth and virtue up the steep ascent	C3
Of nature calls him to his high reward	C3
The applauding smile of heaven Else wherefore burns	L4
In mortal bosoms this unquenched hope	M4
That breathes from day to day sublimer things	N
And mocks possession wherefore darts the mind	C3
With such resistless ardour to embrace	N4
Majestic forms impatient to be free	M
Spurning the gross controul of wilful might	C3
Proud of the strong contention of her toils	O4
Proud to be daring Who but rather turns	L4
To heaven's broad fire his unconstrained view	B4
Than to the glimmering of a waxen flame	A
Who that from Alpine heights his labouring eye	P
Shoots round the wide horizon to survey	Y3
Nilus or Ganges rowling his bright wave	K3
Through mountains plains through empires black with shade	C3
And continents of sand will turn his gaze	G4
To mark the windings of a scanty rill	P4
That murmurs at his feet The high born soul	U3
Disdains to rest her heaven aspiring wing	G
Beneath its native quarry Tir'd of earth	Q4
And th	R4

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