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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    Of hills with many a fhaggy forefl mix’d, 275 With many a fable cliff and glittering firearm Aloft recumbent o’er the hanging ridge. The brown woods wav’d ; while ever-trickling fprings Wafh’d from the naked roots of oak and pine The crumbling foil •, and flill at every fall 280 Down the fleep windings of the channel’d rock, Remurm’ring ruin’d the congregated floods With hoarfer inundation •, till at laft They reach’d a graffy plain, which from the fkirts Of that high defart fpread her verdant lap, 285 And drank the gufhing moiflure, where confin’d In one fmooth current, o’er the lilied vale Clearer than glafs it flow’d. Autumnal fpoils Luxuriant fpreading to the rays of morn, Blulh’d o’er the cliffs, whole half-incircling mound As in a fylvan theatre inclos’d 291 That flow’ry level. On the river’s brink I fpy'd a fair pavilion, which diffus’d Its floating umbrage ’mid the fllver fhade ' Of oners. Now the weftern fun reveal’d 295 E 2 Between