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With kindly care, affords his .stronger wing 

 To aid the weakness of the little thing ; 

 Assists his powers and directs his flight, 

 And lands, at length, him safely from his plight 

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So thou, Muse ! assist the feeble flight 

 Of me, ambitious, as I plume my wing 

 From attic window to the heavenly spring 

 Castalian. There, may I, all among 

 Th inspiring beauties of the tuneful throng, 

 Drink harmony and fire pure from the fount ; 

 Till stronger grown, I then aspire to mount 

 Fierce Pegasus, whom thou Apollo guide 

 To loftier regions of the sethereal tide ; 

 That singing still I rise, and rising sing, 

 CRESCENDO ! 



