I. 3.

Ten thousand forms, by pining Fancy view'd,

Dissolve. Above the sparkling flood

When Phoebus rears his awful brow,

From lengthening lawn and valley low

The troops of fen-born mists retire.

Along the plain

The joyous swain

Eyes the gay villages again,

And gold-illumined spire;

While, on the billowy ether borne,

Floats the loose lay's jovial measure;

And light along the fairy Pleasure,

Her green robes glittering to the morn,

Wantons on silken wing. And goblins all

To the damp dungeon shrink, or hoary hall,

Or westward, with impetuous flight,

Shoot to the desart realms of their congenial Night.

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