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Begin the pow'rful fong, ye facred Nine!
Your inftruments and voices join;

Harmony, peace, and sweet defire,

In ev'ry breast inspire:

Revive the melancholy drooping heart,

And foft repofe to reftless thoughts in part.
Appease the wrathful mind,

To dire revenge and death inclin'd;

With balmy founds his boiling blood affuage,
And melt to mild remorfe his burning rage.

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'Tis done; and now tumultuous paffions ceafe, 70 And all is hufh'd, and all is peace:

The weary world with welcome eafe is bleft,

By mufick lull'd to pleasing rest.

CHORUS.

""Tis done; and now tumultuous paffions cease, "And all is hufh'd, and all is peace:

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"The weary world with welcome eafe is bleft,

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Wakes the world to war and rui 1.
See, fee! the battle is prepar'd!

Behold the hero comes!

Loud trumpets with fhrill fifes are heard,
And hoarse-refounding drums.

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War, with difcordant notes and jarring noise,
The harmony of Peace destroys.

CHORUS.

"War, with difcordant notes and jarring noise, "The harmony of Peace deftroys."

VII.

See the forfaken fair, with streaming eyes,

Her parting lover mourn;

She weeps, the fighs, defpairs, and dies,

And watchful waftes the lonely livelong nights
Bewailing paft delights

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That may no more, no, never more, return.

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"Within her folding arms to reft,

"Thence never to be parted more,

"No, never to be parted more."

VIII.

Enough, Urania! heav'nly fair!
Now to thy native skies repair,

And rule again the starry sphere;
Cecilia comes with holy rapture fill'd,

To ease the world of care.

Cecilia! more than all the Mufes fkill'd!
Phoebus himself to her must yield,

And at her feet lay down

His golden harp and laurel crown.

The foft enervate lyre is drown'd

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In the deep organ's more majestick found.
In peals the fwelling notes afcend the fkies,
Perpetual breath the swelling notes fupplies,
And, lafting as her name

Who form'd the tuneful frame,

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Th' immortal mufick never dies.

GRAND CHORUS.

"Cecilia! more than all the Mufes fkill'a!

"Phœbus himself to her muft yield,

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"And at her feet lay down

"His golden harp and laurel crown.

"The foft enervate lyre is drown'd

"In the deep organ's more majestick found. "In peals the fwelling notes afcend the skics,

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"Perpetual breath the swelling notes supplies,

"And, lafting as her name

"Who form'd the tuneful frame,

66 'Th' immortal mufick never dies."

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Occafioned on a

LADY'S

Having writ

VERSES IN COMMENDATION OF A POEM

which was written in praife of another lady. HARD is the talk, and bold the advent'rous flight, Of him who dares in praife of Beauty write, For when to that high theme our thoughts afcend, 'Tis to detract, too poorly to commend: And he who, praising Beauty, does no wrong, May boaft to be successful in his fong; But when the fair themselves approve his lays, And one accepts, and one vouchsafes to praise, His wide ambition knows no farther bound,

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Nor can his Mufe with brighter fame be crown'd. 10

VERSES

TO THE MEMORY OF

GRACE, LADY GETHIN,

Occafioned by reading her Book, entitled

RELIQUIE GETHINIANE.

AFTER a painful life in study spent,

The learn'd themfelves their ignorance lament;

What man should be, to ripenefs grown,
And finifh'd worth fhould do or fhun,
At full was in the father shown,

What youth could promise in the fon.

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But Death, obdurate, both destroy'd
The perfect fruit and op'ning bud;
First feiz'd those sweets we had enjoy'd,
Then robb'd us of the coming good.

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