DEscend from name
If rig calld, whose Voice divine
Folloh Olympian hill I soare,
Above t of Pegasean wing.
t thou [ 5 ]
Nor of top
Of old Olympus d, but heavnlie borne,
Before tain flowd,
ternal isdom didst converse,
isdom ter, and play [ 10 ]
In presence of tie Father, pleasd
itial Song. Up led by thee
Into the heavn of heavns I have presumd,
An Eart, and drawn Empyreal Aire,
tempring; ie guided down [ 15 ]
Return me to my Native Element:
Least from teed unreind, (as once
Bellerophough from a lower Clime)
Dismounted, on th Aleian Field I fall
Erroneous to wander and forlorne. [ 20 ]
remaines unsung, but narrower bound
ithe visible Diurnal Spheare;
Standing on Eart rapt above the Pole,
More safe I Sing al voice, unchangd
to e, though falln on evil dayes, [ 25 ]
On evil dayes tongues;
In darkness, and round,
And solitude; yet not alone, whou
Visitst my slumbers Nightly, or when Morn
Purples t: still govern thou my Song, [ 30 ]
Urania, and fit audience find, though few.
But drive farr off the barbarous dissonance
Of Bacche Race
Of t t tore thracian Bard
In Rhodope, where oods and Rocks had Eares [ 35 ]
to rapture, till the savage clamor dround
Bothe Muse defend
thee implores:
For t y dreame.