Poems on Several Occasions With some Select Essays in Prose. In Two Volumes. By John Hughes; Adorn'd with Sculptures |
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Recitative.
Timotheus plac'd on high,Amid the tuneful Quire,
With flying Fingers touch'd the Lyre;
Trembling the Notes ascend the Sky,
And Heav'nly Joys inspire.
The Song began from Jove,
Who left his blissful Seats above;
(Such is the Pow'r of mighty Love!)
A Dragon's fiery Form bely'd the God;
Sublime on radiant Spires he rode,
When he to fair Olympia press'd,
And while he sought her snowy Breast;
Then round her slender Waste he curl'd,
And stamp'd an Image of himself, a Sov'reign of the World.
The list'ning Croud adore the lofty Sound,
A present Deity, they shout around;
A present Deity, the echoing Roofs rebound!
AIR.
With ravish'd EarsThe Monarch hears,
Assumes the God,
Affects the Nod,
And seems to shake the Spheres.
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