9. NOT EVERY DAY FIT FOR VERSE

'Tis not ev'ry day that I

Fitted am to prophesy:

No, but when the spirit fills

The fantastic pannicles,

Full of fire, then I write

As the Godhead doth indite.

Thus enraged, my lines are hurl'd,

Like the Sibyl's, through the world:

Look how next the holy fire

Either slakes, or doth retire;

So the fancy cools:--till when

That brave spirit comes again.

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