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Hampton-Gay 69<br />
Fancy, sprightly Nymph, whose Dress<br />
Shines with Colours numberless,<br />
More than stain the heav’nly Bow,<br />
More than glitt’ring Dew-drops show<br />
In early Dawn; yet ever new,<br />
Ever changes to the View.<br />
Take thy Wings, and come away!<br />
Such a Scene invites thy Stay,<br />
Such a Scene as never yet<br />
Before thy ravish’d Eyes was set!<br />
Tho’ o’er Field, and Air, and Wood,<br />
Over Hill, and over Flood,<br />
Wandring light, and unconfin’d,<br />
Thou leav’st the panting Storm behind.<br />
Far away, ye airy Train,<br />
Natives of the Poet’s Brain;<br />
Sister Nine, suppos’d to tread<br />
Cold Parnassus’ aged Head.<br />
Airy Train, be far away,<br />
Guide my undissembling Lay,<br />
Parent Nature; thou whose Smile<br />
69 [Anonymous], “Hampton Gay,” in David Lewis (1683?–1760), ed., Miscellaneous Poems by Several<br />
Hands (London: J. Watts, 1730), 164–73.<br />
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