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168 POEMS.
Sat fimply chatting in a ruftic row;
Full little thought they then,
That the mighty Pan
Was kindly come to live with them below;
Perhaps their loves, or elfe their fheep,
Was all that did their filly thoughts lb bufy keep.
When fuch mufic fweet
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Their hearts and ears did greet,
As never was by mortal finger ftrook,
Divinely-warbled voice
Anfwering the ftringed noife,
As all their fouls in blifsful rapture took :
The air fuch pleafure loath to lofe,
With thoufand echoes ftill prolongs each heav'nly clofe.
10.
Nature that heard fuch found,
Beneath the hollow round
Of Cynthia's feat, the aery region thrilling,
Now was almoft won
To think her part was done,
And that her reign had here its laft fulfilling;
She knew fuch harmony alone
Could hold all Heav'n and Earth in happier union.
11.
At laft furrounds their fight
A globe of circular light,
That with long beams the lhame-fac'd night array'dj
The helmed Cherubim,
And fworded Seraphim,
Are feen in glittering ranks with wings difplay'd,