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Fill'd with fury, rapt, inspired.
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When Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung.
'T was sad by fits, by starts 't was wild.
For when thy folding-star arising shows His paly circlet, at his warning lamp The fragrant hours, and elves Who slept in buds the day, And …
With eyes up-raised, as one inspired, Pale Melancholy sate retired, And from her wild sequestered seat, In notes by distance made more swee…
Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small bu…
Love of peace, and lonely musing, In hollow murmurs died away.
Each lonely scene shall thee restore; For thee the tear be duly shed; Beloved till life can charm no more, And mourn'd till Pity's self be …
O Music! sphere-descended maid, Friend of Pleasure, Wisdom's aid!
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