. Shepp's Literary world: containing the lives of our noted American and favorite English authors. Together with choice selections from their writings . nor sometimes forgetThose other two equalld with me in fate,So were I equalld with them in Thamyris and blind Msonides,And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old :Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn. Or sight of vernal bl
. Shepp's Literary world: containing the lives of our noted American and favorite English authors. Together with choice selections from their writings . nor sometimes forgetThose other two equalld with me in fate,So were I equalld with them in Thamyris and blind Msonides,And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old :Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn. Or sight of vernal bloom, or summers rose. Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair. Presented with a universal blank Of natures works, to me expunged and rased. And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all he» powersIrradiate ; there plant eyes ; all mist from thencPurge and disperse, that I may see and tellOf things invisible to mortal sight. FROM * From betwixt two aged oaksWhere Corydon and Thyrsis met.—nAllegro. BASTE thee. Nymph, and bring with theeJest and youthful Jollity,Quips and Cranks, and wanton Wiles,Nods and Becks, and wreathed Smiles, 5 Such as hang on Hebes cheek,And love to live in dimple sleek;Sport that wrinkled care derides,And laughter holding both his , and trip it, as you go,On the light fantastic toe ;And in thy right hand lead with theeThe mountain-nymph, sweet Liberty ;., if I give thee honordue,Mirth, admit me of thy live with her, and live with thee,In unreproved pleasures hear the lark begin his singing startle the dull Night,From his watch-tower in the skies,Till the dappled Dawn doth rise ;Then to come in spite of at my window bid good morrow,Through the sweet-brier or the vine,Or the twisted egl
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