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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    The P L E A S U R E S That rocky pile thou fee’ft, that verdant lawn Frefh-water’d from the mountains. Let the fcene Paint in thy fancy the primaeval feat 366 Of man, and where the will fupreme ordaiffd His manfion, that pavilion far-diffused Along the fhady brink •, in this receis To wear th’ appointed feafon of his youth, 370 Till riper hours fiiould open to his toil The high communion of fuperior minds, Of confecrated heroes and of gods. Nor did the fire omnipotent forget His tender bloom to cherifli; nor witheld 375 Coeleftial footfteps from his green abode. Oft from the radiant honours of his throne. He Tent whom molt he lov’d, the fov’reign fair. The effluence of his glory, whom he plac’d Before his eyes for ever to behold ; 380 The goddefs from whofe infpiration flows The toil of patriots, the delight of friends ; 'Without whofe work divine, in heav’n or earth. If ought lovely, nought propitious comes to pafs, Nor