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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    Benevolent and meek, confiding love To filial rapture foften’d all the foul. Free in her graceful hand fhe pois’d the fword Of chalte dominion. An heroic crown Difplay’d the old fimplicity of pomp Around her honour’d head. A matron’s robe. White as the funfhine ftreams thro’ vernal clouds, Her rtately form inverted. Hand in hand Th’ immortal pair forfook th’ enamell’d green, Afcending (lowly. Rays of limpid light 43^ Gleam’d round their path} coeleftial founds were heard. And thro’ the fragrant air ethereal dews DiftilTd around them; till at once the clouds Departing wide in midway fky, withdrew Their airy veil, and left a bright expanfe 440 Of empyrean flame, where (pent and drown’d, Afflided vifion plung’d in vain to fcan What objed it involv’d. My feeble eyes Indur’d not. Bending down to earth I flood. With dumb attention. Soon a female voice, 445 As watry murmurs fweet, or warbling (hades. With facred invocation thus began. Father