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POEMS
On 
VARIOUS SUBJECTS.

To MÆCANAS.

MÆCANAS, you, beneath the myrtle shade, 
Read o'er what poets sung, and shepherds play'd, 
What felt those poets but you feel the fame?
Does not your foul possess the sacred flame?
Their noble strains your equal genius shares  5
In softer language, and diviner airs.

Homer paints, lo! circumfus'd in air, 
Celestial Gods in mortal forms appear;
Swift as they move hear each recess rebound,
Heav'n quakes, earth trembles, and the shores resound.   10
Great 

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