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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    Life’s holy flame and piercing fenfe are giv’n, And adtive motion fpeaks the temper’d foul: So moves the bird of Juno j fo the Heed With rival ardour beats the dufty plain, And faithful dogs with eager air of joy Salute their fellows. Thus doth beauty dwell There moil confpicuous, even in outward fhape. Where dawns the high expreflion of a mind : 475 By fteps conducting our inraptur’d fearch To that eternal origin, whofe pow’r, Thro9 all th’ unbounded fymmetry of things, Like rays effulging from the parent fun, This endlefs mixture of her charms diffus’d. 480 Mind, Mind alone, bear witnefs, earth and heav’n! The living fountains in itfelf contains Of beauteous and fublime : here hand in hand, Sit paramount the Graces; here inthron’d, Coeleftial Venus, with divinefl airs, 485 Invites the foul to never-fading joy. Look then abroad thro’ nature, to the range Of planets, funs, and adamantine fpheres Wheeling unfhaken thro’ the void immenfe ; And fpeak, O man ! does this capacious fcene 490 With