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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    Firm thro’ the clofing ruin holds his way. Where nature calls him to the deftin’d goal So fpake the goddefs; while thro3 all her frame Cceleftial raptures flow’d, in every word, 601 In every motion kindling warmth divine To feize who hften’d. Vehement and fwift As light’ning flies the aromatic (hade In ^Ethiopian fields, the {tripling felt 605 Her infpiration catch his fervid foul, And flatting from his languor thus exclaim’d. Then let the trial come! and wltnefs thou, If terror be upon me ; if I {brink To meet the florin, or faulter in my ftrength 610 When hardeft it befets me. Do not think That I am fearful and infirm of foul. As late thy eyes beheld : for thou haft chang’d My nature; thy commanding voice has wak’d Mv languid pow’rs to bear me boldly on, 615 Where’er the will divine my path ordains Thro’ toil or peril: only do not thou F 3 For fake