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And hence each class of Elegant and Great,
Art decks the dome, and commerce crounds the street;
The heav'n-born Muse impetuous wings her way,
When her lov'd Seward seeks the realms of day;
Queen of the comic power, hence Cowley wooes
Fair visitations of the gayer Muse;
The painter hence his magic pencil plies,
And Reynolds bids a new creation rise;
Hence Kauffman sketches life's lov'd forms anew,
And holds the mirror of past times to view,
Restores each grace that mark'd the Grecian age,
And draws her lovely comment on the page;
And still to chear the solitary hour,
For this has Beach display'd his happiest power;
I see my friend upon the canvas glow,
And feel the smile that lightens every woe.
Art decks the dome, and commerce crounds the street;
The heav'n-born Muse impetuous wings her way,
When her lov'd Seward seeks the realms of day;
Queen of the comic power, hence Cowley wooes
Fair visitations of the gayer Muse;
The painter hence his magic pencil plies,
And Reynolds bids a new creation rise;
Hence Kauffman sketches life's lov'd forms anew,
And holds the mirror of past times to view,
Restores each grace that mark'd the Grecian age,
And draws her lovely comment on the page;
And still to chear the solitary hour,
For this has Beach display'd his happiest power;
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And feel the smile that lightens every woe.
A very ingenious and rising artist, who has painted for the Author an admirable portrait of the gentleman to whom this poem is inscribed: Mr. Beach still resides in Bath, where he is gaining that celebrity which is due to uncommon genius, and which nothing but uncommon modesty could so long have impeded.
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