Lessons in Elocution: Or, a Selection of Pieces in Prose And Verse for the Improvement of Youth ...
Lessons in Elocution: Or, a Selection of Pieces in Prose And Verse for the Improvement of Youth ...
William Scott
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Won from the void and formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder win|f, EscapM.the Stygian pool, though longdetainM In that obscure sojourn ; while in my flight, Through utter, and through middle darloness bonM, With other notes, than, to tiie Orphan lyfe, I sung of Chaos and eternal Night ; Taught by the heavenly muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend, Thpugh hard and rare. Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovereign vital lamp— ^>ut ^hou Revisitestnot these eyes, tha...t roU in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenchM their orba, Or dim sufiusion veiPd. Yet not the more . Cease 1 to wonder where the Muses haunt. Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny bill, * Smit with the love of sacred song — ^but chief Thee, Zion, and the flowery brooks heaeath. That wash the hallow'd feet, and warbling flow. Nightly I visit — ^nor sometimes forget Those other two, equalPd with me in fate, So were I equalPd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides ; -^ And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers— -as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her noctamal note.
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