The pleasures of imagination. A poem / In three books.

  • Mark Akenside
Date:
1754
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Credit: The pleasures of imagination. A poem / In three books. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    H His admiration: till in time compleat. What he admir’d and lov’d, his vital (mile Unfolded into being. Hence the breath Of life informing each organic frame, 74 Hence the green earth, and wild refounding waves ; Hence light and fhade alternate ; warmth and cold 5 And dear autumnal fkies and vernal fhow’rs. And all the fair variety of things. But not alike to every mortal eye Is this great fcene unveil’d. For fince the claims 80 Of focial life, to different labours urge The adlive pow’rs of man; with wife intent The hand of nature on peculiar minds Imprints a different byafs, and to each Decrees its province in the common toil. To fome (he taught the fabric of the fphere. The changeful moon, the circuit of the liars. The golden zones of heav’n : to fome file gave To weigh the moment of eternal things. Of time, and fpace,, and fate’s unbroken chain, 90 And will’s quick impulfe : ethers by the hand B 2 She