“Enough, sad Muse, enough thy downward flight
Has cleft with wearied wing the shades of night:
Be drest in smiles, forget the gloomy past,
And, cygnet-like, sing sweeter at the last,
Strike on the chords of joy a happier strain
And be thyself, thy cheerful self, again.
Hail, goodly company of generous youth,
Hail, nobler sons of Temperance and Truth!
I see attendant Ariels circling there,
Light-hearted Innocence, and Prudence fair,
Sweet Chastity, young Hope, and Reason bright,
And modest Love, in heaven’s own hues bedight,
Staid Diligence, and Health, and holy Grace,
And gentle Happiness with smiling face,–
All, all are there; and Sorrow speeds away,
And Melancholy flees the sons of day;
Dull Care is gladden’d with reflected light,
And wounded Sin flies sickening at the sight.
“My friends, whose innate worth the wise man’s praise
And the fool’s censure equally betrays,
Accept the humble blessing of my Muse,
Nor your assistance to her aim refuse,
She asks not flattery, but let her claim
A kind perusal, and a secret name.”
(Martin Farquhar Tupper)
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