Pen and pencil pictures from the poets . PEN AND PENCIL PICTURES EROM THE POETS. 53 II P JK ILTON. PENCE, vain deluding joys, w J^lf/Vl Ilit; I)i-ood of Eolly, without father bred !*^ ^ How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys !Dwell in some idle brain. And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams,The fickle pensioners of Morpheus , hail ! thou goddess sage and holy,Hail ! divmest Melancholy !Whose saintly visage is too brightTo hit the sense of human sight,An
Pen and pencil pictures from the poets . PEN AND PENCIL PICTURES EROM THE POETS. 53 II P JK ILTON. PENCE, vain deluding joys, w J^lf/Vl Ilit; I)i-ood of Eolly, without father bred !*^ ^ How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys !Dwell in some idle brain. And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams,The fickle pensioners of Morpheus , hail ! thou goddess sage and holy,Hail ! divmest Melancholy !Whose saintly visage is too brightTo hit the sense of human sight,And, therefore, to our weaker view,Oerlaid with black, staid Wisdoms hue;Black, but such as in esteemPrmce Memnons sister might beseem,Or that starred Ethiop queen that stroveTo set her beautys praise aboveThe sea-nymphs, and their powers offended ;Yet thou art higher far descended ;Thee, bright-haired Vesta, long of yore,To solitary Saturn bore ;His daughter she ; in Saturns reignSuch mixture was not held a stain :Oft in glimmering bowers and gladesHe met her, and in secret shadesOf woody Idas i
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