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Shall Love alone for ever claim	A
An universal right to fame	A
An undisputed sway	B
Or has not Music equal charms	C
To fill the breast with strange alarms	C
And make the world obey	B
	-
The Thracian bard as poets tell	D
Could mitigate the powers of hell	D
Even Pluto's nicer ear	E
His arts no more than Love's we find	F
To deities or men confined	F
Drew brutes in crowds to hear	E
	-
Whatever favourite passion reign'd	G
The poet still his right maintain'd	G
O'er all that ranged the plain	H
The fiercer tyrants could assuage	I
Or fire the timorous into rage	I
Whene'er he changed the strain	H
	-
In milder lays the bard began	J
Soft notes through every finger ran	J
And echoing charm'd the place	K
See fawning lions gaze around	L
And taught to quit their savage sound	L
Assume a gentler grace	K
	-
When Cymon view'd the fair one's charms	C
Her ruby lips and snowy arms	C
And told her beauties o'er	M
When Love reform'd his awkward tone	N
And made each clownish gesture known	N
It show'd but equal power	M
	-
The bard now tries a sprightlier sound	L
When all the feather'd race around	L
Perceived the varied strains	O
The soaring lark the note pursues	P
The timorous dove around him coos	Q
And Philomel complains	O
	-
An equal power of Love I've seen	R
Incite the deer to scour the green	R
And chase his barking foe	S
Sometimes has Love with greater might	T
To challenge nay sometimes to fight	T
Provoked the enamour'd beau	S
	-
When Silvia treads the smiling plain	H
How glows the heart of every swain	H
By pleasing tumults tost	T
When Handel's solemn accents roll	U
Each breast is fired each raptured soul	U
In sweet confusion lost	T
	-
If she her melting glances dart	T
Or he his dying airs impart	T
Our spirits sink away	B
Enough enough dear nymph give o'er	M
And thou great artist urge no more	V
Thy unresisted sway	B
	-
Thus Love or Sound affects the mind	T
But when their various powers are join'd	T
Fly daring mortal fly	W
For when Selinda's charms appear	X
And I her tuneful accents hear	E
I burn I faint I die	W

William Shenstone

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