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Thou doft, with divided care, 



Thrid the mazy path in air ; 



And now thy fifter earth with fond affedion tend. 



Now to the fun with humble rev'rence bend, 



And oft return, with kind delay, 



And often feek, as lovers ufe. 



Some amorous excufe. 

 Near the kindred orb to ftay.. 



Hark ! thy pied courfers beat 



The ftarry-pav'd retreat. 



With founding hoof, and roll'd thro' many a cloud 



That the filver axles fhroud, 



Half reveal'd, 



Half conceal'd,^ 



Thy glitt'ring chariot moves from far; 



While, beneath, in frolick maze, 



Glancing quick the meteor plays. 



And elemental fquadrons rufli to war. 



It moves, it dafhes round the treafures 



Of future mift, and hail, and ftorm, and rain 



Heap'd along th' etherial plain. 



Lightly o'er the fky 



Difperft they fly, 



Or feeking earth in gentleft fhow'rs, 



Bathe, but bruife not vernal flow'rs, 



And feed Pomona's hope, and fhepherd's lufty pleafures. 



V. Oft: 



