SELECTIONS IN ENGLISH POETRY

And Pomp, and Feast, and Revelry,

With Mask, and antique Pageantry,

Such sights as youthful poets dream

On summer ,eves by haunted stream. 130

Thj^JjoJJi^^ stage anon»

If Johnson's learned ...sock, be_ onT

Qr sweetest^^

Warble his native wood-notes wild.

And ever against eating cares, 135

Lap me in soft Lydian airs,
Married to immortal Verse
Such as the meeting soul may j>ie^sg
In notes, with manjr a winding bout

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The melti^ running :

Thei hi^^e^^soul of harmony :

W^Jtiead 1 45

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Such strains as wp|ild have.w.ou t
Of iJPluto, to tiave quite set fiee
His lia]f-regained,Eurydice. 150
These delights, if thou canst give,
Mirth with thee, I mean to live