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

  • Mark Akenside
Date:
1754
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The pleasures of imagination. A poem / In three books. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Shines not the furface clearer, and the waves With fweeter muflc murmur as they flow ? Nor this alone *, the various lot of life Oft from external circumftance aflumes 2$ A moment's difpofltion to rejoice In thofe delights which at a different hour Would pafs unheeded. Fair the face of ipring. When rural fongs and odours wake the morn. To every eye ; but how much more to his 90 Round whom the bed of flcknefs long diffus’d Its melancholy gloom! how doubly fairr When firfl: with frefli-born vigour he inhales The balmy breeze, and feels the bleffed fun Warm at his bofom, from the fprings of life 95 Chafing oppreflive damps and languid pain ! Or fhall I mention, where cceleftial truth Her awful light difclofes, to bellow A more majeftic pomp on beauty’s frame ? For man loves knowledge, and the beams of truth 1 00 More welcome touch his underloading's eye. Than