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The Poetical Works of The Rev. Samuel Bishop

... To Which are Prefixed, Memoirs of the Life of the Author By the Rev. Thomas Clare

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THE ODE.

[The Senior as recollecting himself.]
What sudden voice assaults mine ear?
Comes there some minstrel of the sphere,

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Who calls me to the lyre?
Tunes to my touch th' obedient string?
And bids me play, and bids me sing,
What all the Nine inspire?