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How long, great Poet, shall thy s… Provoke our wonder, and transcend… Can eneither injuries of time, or… Damp thy poetic heat, and quench t… No so thy Ovid in his exile wrote…
Prepare the hallow’d strain, My M… Thy softest sounds and sweetest nu… the bright Cecilia’s praise rehear… In warbling words, a nd glittering… that smootly run into a song,
The Spacious Firmament on high, With all the blue Ethereal Sky, And spangled Heav’ns, a Shining… Their great Original proclaim: Th’ unwearied Sun, from day to da…
O Liberty! thou goddess, heavenly… profuse of bliss and pregnant with… Eternal pleasures in thy presence… And smiling Plenty leads thy smil… Eased of her load Subjection grow…
The Lord my pasture shall prepare And feed me with a shepherd’s ca… His presence shall my wants supply And guard me with a watchful eye; My noonday walks He shall attend
Cecilia, whose exalted hymns With joy and wonder fill the blest… In choirs of warbling seraphims Known and distinguish’d fom the re… Attend, harmonious saint, and see
In the first rise and infancy of f… When fools were many, and when pla… The raw unpractis’d authors could,… A young and unexperienc’d audience… No single character had e’er been…
The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining fr… Their great Original proclaim. Th’unwearied sun, from day to day,
The Lord my pasture shall prepare And feed me with a shepherd’s care… His presence shall my wants supply And guard me with a watchful eye; My noonday walks He shall attend
THE spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining fr… Their great Original proclaim. Th’ unwearied Sun from day to day
While crowds of princes your deser… Proud in their number to enrol you… While emperors to you commit their… And Anna’s praises crown the vast… Accept, great leader, what the Mu…
The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heav’ns, a shining fr… Their great original proclaim: Th’ unwearied Sun, from day to da…
How are Thy servants blest, O Lo… How sure is their defense! Eternal wisdom is their guide, Their help Omnipotence. In foreign realms, and lands remot…
If yet your thoughts are loose fro… Nor feel the burden of a kingdom’s… If yet your time and actions are y… Receive the present of a Muse unk… A Must that, in adventurous numbe…
When rising from the bed of death, O’erwhelmed with guilt and fear, I see my Maker face to face, O how shall I appear? If yet, while pardon may be found,