Of that wilde Rout that tore the Thracian Bard

Within the visible Diurnal Spheare;

Visitst my slumbers Nightly, or when Morn

Nor of the Muses nine, nor on the top

For thou art Heavnlie, shee an empty dreame.

Of old Olympus dwellst, but Heavnlie borne,

Above the flight of Pegasean wing.

And solitude; yet not alone, while thou

But drive farr off the barbarous dissonance

Return me to my Native Element:

Into the Heavn of Heavns I have presumd,

More safe I Sing with mortal voice, unchangd

With thy Celestial Song. Up led by thee

An Earthlie Guest, and九九藏书网 drawn Empyreal Aire,

Urania, and fit audience find, though few.

In darkness, and with dangers compast round,

Thy tempring; with like safetie guided down [ 15 ]

To rapture, till the savage clamor dround

Erroneous there to wander and forlorne. [ 20 ]

To hoarce or mute, though f九九藏书网alln on evil dayes, [ 25 ]

Bellerophon, though from a lower Clime)

In Rhodope, where Woods and Rocks had Eares [ 35 ]

Thou with Eternal Wisdom didst converse,

Half yet remaines unsung, but narrower bound

DEscend from Heavn Urania, by that name

On evil dayes though falln, and evil tongu99lib.netes;

Before the Hills appeerd, or Fountain flowd,

Standing on Earth, not rapt above the Pole,

Both Harp and Voice; nor could the Muse defend

If rightly thou art calld, whose Voice divine

Her Son. So fail not thou, who thee implores:

Of Bacchus and his Revellers, the Race

The meaning, not the N99lib.netame I call: for thou [ 5 ]

In presence of th Almightie Father, pleasd

Wisdom thy Sister, and with her didst play [ 10 ]

Least from this flying Steed unreind, (as once

Following, above th Olympian Hill I soare,

Purples the East: still govern thou my Song, [ 30 ]

Dismounted, on th Aleian Field I fall