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COLOPHON

While invention holds the session,
Who so blithe as I?
After, comes the deep depression,
All is vacancy.
Then the spirits that I mustered
Shrink to secret cells,
Then the flowers that I clustered
Cease to weave their spells.
No more God converses;
I am left alone;
Earth, with all her curses,
Grinds me, like a stone.