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IRREGULAR ODE to the MOON. 



I. 



V->HANGEFUL orb, myfterious pow'r, 



Look from the meridian tow'r, 



Where, with thy lov'd Endimion biding, 



Morpheus keeps 



The fount of dewy fleeps. 



The boy's foft eyes in downy trances hiding, 



And wreaths around his head 



No common flow'rs, that bright and gay 



Q Court Aurora's wanton ray. 



Or bold and obvious o'er the field 



To vagrant gales their flaunting bofoms yield j 



But flow'rs, a facred birth, that chaftly bloom. 



Drink the moifture of the gloom, 

 And in the morn expire, within their virgin bed ; 

 Or bands of vapour light 

 As GofTamer, and white 



As drifted fnow, 



And lucid as the dawn, 



Or gaily-tindur'd fillets drawn 



From Heav'n's affuring bow. 



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