Oculus Britanniae An Heroi-Panegyrical poem on the University of Oxford. Illustrated with divers beautiful Similes, and useful Digressions [by Nicholas Amhurst] |
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In this divine delirium, to my eyes
Abstracted forms, and fancied objects rise;
Whilst the pleas'd muse in thoughtful silence roves
Through the cool shades, and academick groves,
In the clear fountains, and the silvan springs
Sees the young cygnets dip their snowy wings;
Observes the streams of science roll along,
Here floats a syllogism, there a song;
Here unborn poems tune the warbling tide,
And problems there, instead of gudgeons, glide.
Abstracted forms, and fancied objects rise;
Whilst the pleas'd muse in thoughtful silence roves
Through the cool shades, and academick groves,
In the clear fountains, and the silvan springs
Sees the young cygnets dip their snowy wings;
Observes the streams of science roll along,
Here floats a syllogism, there a song;
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And problems there, instead of gudgeons, glide.
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