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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    Till defolation o’er the grafs-grown fbreet Expands his raven-wings, and up the wall, Where fenates once the pride of monarchs doom’d,' Hiffes the gliding fnake thro’ hoary weeds That clafp the mould’ring columnj thus defac’d, 750 Thus widely mournful when the proiped thrills Thy beating bofom, when the patriots tear Starts from thine eye, and thy extended arm In fancy hurls the thunderbolt of Jove To fire the impious wreath on Philip’s brow, 755 Of dafh Odavius from the trophied car •, Say, does thy fecret foul repine to tafle The big diftrefs ? Or would’fl thou then exchange Thofe heart-ennobling farrows for the lot Of him who fits amid the gaudy herd 760 Of mute barbarians bending to his nod. And bears aloft his gold invefled front. And fays within himfelf, “ I am a king, ‘c And wherefore fhould the clam’rous voice of woe Philip.] The Macedonian. 6C Intrude