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As Echo's voice returns the pleasing lay,So is a Dream the echo of the day:
The busy thoughts that round some object teem
Oft join in sleep to form the nightly theme;
Then bright-ey'd Fancy lifts her magic wand,
While scenes unreal rise at her command;
Then Comedy, with all her laughing train,
Straight issues from the porch of Comus' fane,
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Her pranks, her gambols, and her winning smiles,
She bids her merry troop approach the bed,
And beat their airy dance round Anstey's head.
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