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When shall the laurel and the vocal string	A
Resume their honours When shall we behold	B
The tuneful tongue the Prometh an hand	C
Aspire to ancient praise Alas how faint	D
How slow the dawn of beauty and of truth	E
Breaks the reluctant shades of Gothic night	F
Which yet involve the nations Long they groan'd	G
Beneath the furies of rapacious force	H
Oft as the gloomy north with iron swarms	I
Tempestuous pouring from her frozen caves	J
Blasted the Italian shore and swept the works	K
Of liberty and wisdom down the gulph	L
Of all devouring night As long immur'd	G
In noon tide darkness by the glimmering lamp	M
Each muse and each fair science pin'd away	N
The sordid hours while foul barbarian hands	O
Their mysteries profan'd unstrung the lyre	P
And chain'd the soaring pinion down to earth	Q
At last the muses rose and spurn'd their bonds	R
And wildly warbling scatter'd as they flew	S
Their blooming wreaths from fair Valclusa's bowers	T
Arno's myrtle border and the shore of soft Parthenope	M
	-
But still the rage of dire ambition and gigantic power	U
From public aims and from the busy walk	V
Of civil commerce drove the bolder train	W
Of penetrating science to the cells	X
Where studious ease consumes the silent hour	U
In shadowy searches and unfruitful care	Y
Thus from their guardians torn the tender arts	Z
Of mimic fancy and harmonious joy	A2
To priestly domination and the lust	G
Of lawless courts their amiable toil	B2
For three inglorious ages have resign'd	G
In vain reluctant and Torquato's tongue	C2
Was tun'd for slavish p ans at the throne	D2
Of tinsel pomp and Raphael's magic hand	G
Effus'd its fair creation to enchant	G
The fond adoring herd in Latian fanes	Z
To blind belief while on their prostrate necks	Z
The sable tyrant plants his heel secure	E2
	-
But now behold the radiant ra dawns	Z
When freedom's ample fabric fix'd at length	F2
For endless years on Albion's happy shore	G2
In full proportion once more shall extend	G
To all the kindred powers of social bliss	Z
A common mansion a parental roof	L
There shall the virtues there shall wisdom's train	W
Their long lost friends rejoining as of old	G
Embrace the smiling family of arts	Z
The muses and the graces Then no more	G2
Shall vice distracting their delicious gifts	Z
To aims abhorr'd with high distaste and scorn	H2
Turn from their charms the philosophic eye	I2
The patriot bosom then no more the paths	Z
Of public care or intellectual toil	B2
Alone by footsteps haughty and severe	J2
In gloomy state be trod the harmonious Muse	Z
And her persuasive sisters then shall plant	G
Their sheltering laurels o'er the bleak ascent	G
And scatter flowers along the rugged way	N
Arm'd with the lyre already have we dar'd	G
To pierce divine philosophy's retreats	Z
And teach the Muse her lore already strove	L
Their long divided honours to unite	G
While tempering this deep argument we sang	K2
Of truth and beauty Now the same glad task	L2
Impends now urging our ambitious toil	B2
We hasten to recount the various springs	Z
Of adventitious pleasure which adjoin	M2
Their grateful influence to the prime effect	G
Of objects grand or beauteous and inlarge	A2
The complicated joy The sweets of sense	Z
Do they not oft with kind accession flow	N2
To raise harmonious fancy's native charm	O2
So while we taste the fragrance of the rose	Z
Glows not her blush the fairer While we view	S
Amid the noontide walk a limpid rill	P2
Gush through the trickling herbage to the thirst	G
Of summer yielding the delicious draught	G
Of cool refreshment o'er the mossy brink	Q2
Shines not the surface clearer and the waves	Z
With sweeter music murmur as they flow	N2
	-
Nor this alone the various lot of life	L
Oft from external circumstance assumes	Z
A moment's disposition to rejoice	Z
In those delights which at a different hour	U
Would pass unheeded Fair the face of spring	A
When rural songs and odours wake the morn	H2
To every eye but how much more to his	Z
Round whom the bed of sickness long diffus'd	G
Its melancholy gloom how doubly fair	Y
When first with fresh born vigour he inhales	Z
The balmy breeze and feels the blessed sun	R2
Warm at his bosom from the springs of life	L
Chasing oppressive damps and languid pain	W
	-
Or shall i mention where c lestial truth	E
Her awful light discloses to bestow	N2
A more majestic pomp on beauty's frame	S2
For man loves knowledge and the beams of truth	E
More welcome touch his understanding's eye	I2
Than all the blandishments of sound his ear	T2
Than all of taste his tongue Nor ever yet	G
The melting rainbow's vernal tinctur'd hues	Z
To me have shone so pleasing as when first	G
The hand of science pointed out the path	U2
In which the sun beams gleaming from the west	G
Fall on the watry cloud whose darksome veil	V2
Involves the orient and that trickling shower	U
Piercing through every crystalline convex	Z
Of clustering dew drops to their flight oppos'd	G
Recoil at length where concave all behind	G
The internal surface of each glassy orb	W2
Repells their forward passage into air	Y
That thence direct they seek the radiant goal	X2
From which their course began and as they strike	Y2
In different lines the gazer's obvious eye	I2
Assume a different lustre through the brede	G
Of colours changing from the splendid rose	Z
To the pale violet's dejected hue	S
	-
Or shall we touch that kind access of joy	A2
That springs to each fair object while we trace	Z
Through all its fabric wisdom's artful aim	S2
Disposing every part and gaining still	P2
By means proportion'd her benignant end	G
Speak ye the pure delight whose favour'd steps	Z
The lamp of science through the jealous maze	Z
Of nature guides when haply you reveal	Z2
Her secret honours whether in the sky	I2
The beauteous laws of light the central powers	Z
That wheel the pensile planets round the year	J2
Whether in wonders of the rowling deep	M
Or the rich fruits of all sustaining earth	Q
Or fine adjusted springs of life and sense	Z
Ye scan the counsels of their author's hand	G
	-
What when to raise the meditated scene	A3
The flame of passion through the struggling soul	X2
Deep kindled shows across that sudden blaze	Z
The object of its rapture vast of size	Z
With fiercer colours and a night of shade	G
What like a storm from their capacious bed	G
The sounding seas o'erwhelming when the might	G
Of these eruptions working from the depth	B3
Of man's strong apprehension shakes his frame	S2
Even to the base from every naked sense	Z
Of pain or pleasure dissipating all	C3
Opinion's feeble coverings and the veil	V2
Spun from the cobweb fashion of the times	Z
To hide the feeling heart Then nature speaks	Z
Her genuine language and the words of men	D3
Big with the very motion of their souls	Z
Declare with what accumulated force	Z
The impetuous nerve of passion urges on	E3
The native weight and energy of things	Z
	-
Yet more her honours where nor beauty claims	Z
Nor shews of good the thirsty sense allure	E2
From passion's power alone our nature holds	Z
Essential pleasure Passion's fierce illapse	Z
Rouzes the mind's whole fabric with supplies	Z
Of daily impulse keeps the elastic powers	Z
Intensely poiz'd and polishes anew	S
By that collision all the fine machine	A3
Else rust would rise and foulness by degrees	Z
Incumbering choak at last what heaven design'd	G
For ceaseless motion and a round of toil	B2
But say does every passion thus to man	F3
Administer delight That name indeed	G
Becomes the rosy breath of love becomes	Z
The radiant smiles of joy the applauding hand	G
Of admiration but the bitter shower	U
That sorrow sheds upon a brother's grave	L
But the dumb palsy of nocturnal fear	J2
Or those consuming fires that gnaw the heart	G
Of panting indignation find we there	Y
To move delight Then listen while my tongue	C2
The unalter'd will of heaven with faithful awe	G3
Reveals what old Harmodius wont to teach	H3
My early age Harmodius who had weigh'd	G
Within his learned mind whate'er the schools	Z
Of wisdom or thy lonely whispering voice	Z
O faithful nature dictate of the laws	Z
Which govern and support this mighty frame	S2
Of universal being Oft the hours	Z
Fr	Y

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