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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    Thro* fair Lyceum’s walk, the green retreats Of Academus, and the thymy vale, Where oft inchanted with Socratic founds, Iliffus pure devolv’d his tuneful ifream In gentler murmurs. From the bloomingLore 595 Of thefe aufpicious fields, may I unblam’d Tranfplant fome living bloffoms to adorn My native clime : while far above the flight Of fancy’s plume afpiring, I unlock The fprings of ancient wifdom ; while I join 600 Thy name thrice honour’d! with th’ immortal praife Of nature ; while to my compatriot youth I point the high example of thy fons, And tune to Attic themes the Britifn lyre. Lyceum. 1 Thefchoolof Arljlctle. Academus. ] The fchool of Plato. Iliffus.] One of the rivers on which Athens was fituated. Plato, in fome of his fineft dialogues, lays the fcene of the con- verfation with Socrates on its banks. End of the FIRST BOOK. THE