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The verfe adorn again

<m Fierce War, and faithful Love,

• And Truth fevere, by fairy Fiction drest.

• In buskin'd measures move

• Pale Grief, and pleafing Pain,

' With Horrour, Tyrant of the throbbing breast.

"A° Voice, as of the Cherub-Choir,

Gales from blooming Eden bear;

P. And diftant warblings leffen on my ear,

• That loft in long futurity expire.

m Fierce wars and faithful loves fhall moralize my fong.

Spenfer's Proëme to the Fairy Queen.

n Shakespear.

o Milton.

The fucceffion of Poets after Milton's time.

• Fond

'Fond impious Man, think'ft thou, yon fanguine cloud,

Rais'd by thy breath, has quench'd the Orb of day?

'To-morrow he repairs the golden flood,

And warms the nations with redoubled ray.

Enough for me: With joy I fee

The different doom our Fates affign.

'Be thine Despair, and scept'red Care,

To triumph, and to die, are mine.'

He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height

Deep in the roaring tide he plung'd to endless night.

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