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Awake olian lyre awake	A
And give to rapture all thy trembling strings	B
From Helicon's harmonious springs	B
A thousand rills their mazy progress take	A
The laughing flowers that round them blow	C
Drink life and fragrance as they flow	C
Now the rich stream of Music winds along	D
Deep majestic smooth and strong	D
Thro' verdant vales and Ceres' golden reign	E
Now rolling down the steep amain	E
Headlong impetuous see it pour	F
The rocks and nodding groves re bellow to the roar	F
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Oh Sov'reign of the willing soul	G
Parent of sweet and solemn breathing airs	H
Enchanting shell the sullen Cares	H
And frantic Passions hear thy soft control	G
On Thracia's hills the Lord of War	F
Has curbed the fury of his car	I
And dropt his thirsty lance at thy command	J
Perching on the sceptred hand	J
Of Jove thy magic lulls the feathered king	K
With ruffled plumes and flagging wing	K
Quenched in dark clouds of slumber lie	L
The terror of his beak and lightnings of his eye	L
	-
Thee the voice the dance obey	M
Tempered to thy warbled lay	M
O'er Idalia's velvet green	E
The rosy crowned Loves are seen	E
On Cytherea's day	M
With antic Sport and blue eyed Pleasures	N
Frisking light in frolic measures	N
Now pursuing now retreating	K
Now in circling troops they meet	O
To brisk notes in cadence beating	K
Glance their many twinkling feet	O
Slow melting strains their Queen's approach declare	P
Where'er she turns the Graces homage pay	M
With arms sublime that float upon the air	P
In gliding state she wins her easy way	M
O'er her warm cheek and rising bosom move	Q
The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love	R
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Man's feeble race what ills await	S
Labour and Penury the racks of Pain	E
Disease and Sorrow's weeping train	E
And Death sad refuge from the storms of Fate	S
The fond complaint my song disprove	Q
And justify the laws of Jove	Q
Say has he giv'n in vain the heav'nly Muse	T
Night and all her sickly dews	T
Her sceptres wan and birds of boding cry	L
He gives to range the dreary sky	L
Till down the eastern cliffs afar	I
Hyperion's march they spy and glitt'ring shafts of war	F
	-
In climes beyond the solar road	U
Where shaggy forms o'er ice built mountains roam	V
The Muse has broke the twilight gloom	W
To cheer the shivering Native's dull abode	U
And oft beneath the od'rous shade	X
Of Chili's boundless forests laid	X
She deigns to hear the savage youth repeat	O
In loose numbers wildly sweet	O
Their feather cinctured chiefs and dusky loves	Y
Her track where'er the Goddess roves	Y
Glory pursue and gen'rous Shame	Z
Th' unconquerable Mind and Freedom's holy flame	Z
	-
Woods that wave o'er Delphi's steep	A2
Isles that crown th' gean deep	A2
Fields that cool Ilissus laves	Y
Or where M ander's amber waves	Y
In lingering lab'rinths creep	A2
How do your tuneful echoes languish	B2
Mute but to the voice of anguish	B2
Where each old poetic mountain	E
Inspiration breathed around	C2
Ev'ry shade and hallowed fountain	E
Murmured deep a solemn sound	C2
Till the sad Nine in Greece's evil hour	D2
Left their Parnassus for the Latian plains	Y
Alike they scorn the pomp of tyrant Power	D2
And coward Vice that revels in her chains	Y
When Latium had her lofty spirit lost	E2
They sought Oh Albion next thy sea encircled coast	F2
	-
Far from the sun and summer gale	G2
In thy green lap was Nature's Darling laid	X
What time where lucid Avon strayed	X
To him the mighty mother did unveil	G2
Her awful face the dauntless child	H2
Stretched forth his little arms and smiled	H2
This pencil take she said whose colours clear	I2
Richly paint the vernal year	I2
Thine too these golden keys immortal Boy	J2
This can unlock the gates of Joy	J2
Of Horror that and thrilling Fears	Y
Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears	Y
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Nor second he that rode sublime	K2
Upon the seraph wings of Ecstasy	Y
The secrets of th' Abyss to spy	L
He passed the flaming bounds of place and time	K2
The living Throne the sapphire blaze	Y
Where Angels tremble while they gaze	Y
He saw but blasted with excess of light	L2
Closed his eyes in endless night	L2
Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car	I
Wide o'er the fields of glory bear	P
Two coursers of ethereal race	Y
With necks in thunder clothed and long resounding pace	Y
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Hark his hands the lyre explore	F
Bright eyed Fancy hovering o'er	D2
Scatters from her pictured urn	E
Thoughts that breathe and words that burn	E
But ah 'tis heard no more	F
Oh Lyre divine what daring Spirit	M2
Wakes thee now Though he inherit	M2
Nor the pride nor ample pinion	E
That the Theban eagle bear	P
Sailing with supreme dominion	E
Through the azure deep of air	P
Yet oft before his infant eyes would run	E
Such forms as glitter in the Muse's ray	M
With orient hues unborrowed of the Sun	E
Yet shall he mount and keep his distant way	M
Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate	S
Beneath the Good how far but far above the Great	S

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