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The triumph of music

a poem: in six cantos ... by William Hayley
  

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HYMN.

DELIGHTS there are, that suit with age,
And mine be such alone!
To keep, in duty firm and sage,
The mind upon her throne;
Tumultuous passions to subdue,
To banish worldly care,
And seem, while friends in Heaven we view,
Almost an inmate there.
Theodore.