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That form alone where glows peculiar grace, 



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The genuine Painter condefcends to trace : i o 



No fordid theme will Verfe or Paint admit, 

 Unworthy colours if unworthy wit. 



From you, bleft Pair ! Religion deigns tp claim 

 Her facred honours \ at her awful name 

 High o'er the ftars you take your foaring flight, 15 

 And rove the regions of fupernal light, 



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Attend to lays that flow from tongues divine, 

 Undazzled gaze where charms feraphic fliinej 

 Trace beauty's beam to its eternal Ipring, 

 \> And pure to man the fire coeleftial bring. 20 



Quod pulchrum afpeftu Ti&ores pingere curant: 



Quseque Poetarum numeris indigna fuere, 



Non eadem Pi&orum operam iludiumq; merentur : 



Ambx quippe facros ad religionis honores 



Sydereos fuperant ignes, aulamque tonantis 10 



IngrefTa?, Divum afpedu, alloquioque fruuntur.; 

 Oraque magna DeCm, & dida obfervata reportant, 

 Coeleftemque fuorum operum mortalibtis ignem. 



