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Ah stay thy treacherous hand forbear to trace	A
Those faultless forms of elegance and grace	A
Ah cease to spread the bright transparent mass	B
With Titian's pencil o'er the speaking glass	B
Nor steal by strokes of art with truth combin'd	C
The fond illusions of my wayward mind	C
For long enamour'd of a barbarous age	D
A faithless truant to the classic page	D
Long have I lov'd to catch the simple chime	E
Of minstrel harps and spell the fabling rime	E
To view the festive rites the knightly play	F
That deck'd heroic Albion's elder day	F
To mark the mouldering halls of barons bold	G
And the rough castle cast in giant mould	G
With Gothic manners Gothic arts explore	H
And muse on the magnificence of yore	H
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But chief enraptur'd have I lov'd to roam	E
A lingering votary the vaulted dome	E
Where the tall shafts that mount in massy pride	I
Their mingling branches shoot from side to side	I
Where elfin sculptors with fantastic clew	F
O'er the long roof their wild embroidery drew	J
Where Superstition with capricious hand	K
In many a maze the wreathed window plann'd	K
With hues romantic ting'd the gorgeous pane	L
To fill with holy light the wondrous fane	L
To aid the builder's model richly rude	M
By no Vitruvian symmetry subdu'd	M
To suit the genius of the mystic pile	F
Whilst as around the far retiring aisle	F
And fretted shrines with hoary trophies hung	N
Her dark illumination wide she flung	N
With new solemnity the nooks profound	O
The caves of death and the dim arches frown'd	O
From bliss long felt unwillingly we part	P
Ah spare the weakness of a lover's heart	P
Chase not the phantoms of my fairy dream	E
Phantoms that shrink at Reason's painful gleam	E
That softer touch insidious artist stay	F
Nor to new joys my struggling breast betray	F
	-
Such was a pensive bard's mistaken strain	L
But oh of ravish'd pleasures why complain	L
No more the matchless skill I call unkind	C
That strives to disenchant my cheated mind	C
For when again I view thy chaste design	Q
The just proportion and the genuine line	Q
Those native portraitures of Attic art	P
That from the lucid surface seem to start	P
Those tints that steal no glories from the day	F
Nor ask the sun to lend his streaming ray	F
The doubtful radiance of contending dyes	R
That faintly mingle yet distinctly rise	R
'Twixt light and shade the transitory strife	S
The feature blooming with immortal life	S
The stole in casual foldings taught to flow	F
Not with ambitious ornaments to glow	F
The tread majestic and the beaming eye	T
That lifted speaks its commerce with the sky	T
Heaven's golden emanation gleaming mild	U
O'er the mean cradle of the Virgin's child	U
Sudden the sombrous imagery is fled	V
Which late my visionary rapture fed	V
Thy powerful hand has broke the Gothic chain	L
And brought my bosom back to truth again	W
To truth by no peculiar taste confin'd	C
Whose universal pattern strikes mankind	C
To truth whose bold and unresisted aim	E
Checks frail caprice and fashion's fickle claim	E
To truth whose charms deception's magic quell	F
And bind coy Fancy in a stronger spell	F
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Ye brawny Prophets that in robes so rich	X
At distance due possess the crisped niche	X
Ye rows of Patriarchs that sublimely rear'd	Y
Diffuse a proud primeval length of beard	Y
Ye Saints who clad in crimson's bright array	F
More pride than humble poverty display	F
Ye Virgins meek that wear the palmy crown	Z
Of patient faith and yet so fiercely frown	Z
Ye Angels that from clouds of gold recline	Q
But boast no semblance to a race divine	Q
Ye tragic tales of legendary lore	H
That draw devotion's ready tear no more	H
Ye martyrdoms of unenlighten'd days	A2
Ye miracles that now no wonder raise	A2
Shapes that with one broad glare the gazer strike	B2
Kings bishops nuns apostles all alike	B2
Ye colours that th' unwary sight amaze	A2
And only dazzle in the noontide blaze	A2
No more the sacred window's round disgrace	A
But yield to Grecian groups the shining space	A
Lo from the canvas Beauty shifts her throne	C2
Lo Picture's powers a new formation own	C2
Behold she prints upon the crystal plain	L
With her own energy th' expressive stain	L
The mighty master spreads his mimic toil	F
More wide nor only blends the breathing oil	F
But calls the lineaments of life complete	D2
From genial alchymy's creative heat	D2
Obedient forms to the bright fusion gives	E2
While in the warm enamel Nature lives	E2
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Reynolds 'tis thine from the broad window's height	F2
To add new lustre to religious light	F2
Not of its pomp to strip this ancient shrine	Q
But bid that pomp with purer radiance shine	Q
With arts unknown before to reconcile	F
The willing Graces to the Gothic pile	F

Thomas Warton Jr.

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