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’ all its fabric, wifdom’s artful aim Diipofing every part, and gaining Hill By means proportion’d her benignant end ? 125 Speak, ye, the pure delight, whofe favour’d fceps The lamp of fcience thro’ the jealous maze Of nature guides, when haply you reveal Her fecret honours : whether in the fky. The beauteous laws of light, the central powTs 130 That wheel their planets round their various year 5 Whether in wonders of the rowling deep. Or the rich fruits of all-fu flaming earth. Or fine-adjufled fprings of life and fenfe, ¥e fcan the cou-nfels of their author’s hand. 1^5 What, when to raife the meditated fcene. The flame of paflion, thro’ the (Iruggling foul Deep-kindled, fhovvs acrofs that hidden blaze The objedl of its rapture, vaft of fize. With fiercer colours and a night of fhade ? 140 What ? like a dorm from their capacious bed The founding feas o’erwhelming, when the might Of thefe eruptions, working from the depth Of