Poet. O, very loftily!
The winged vallance of your
eyes advance
Shake off your canopied and
downie trance:
Phoebus already quaffs the
morning dew,
Each does his daily lease
of life renew.
Now you shall hear description, ’tis
the very life of poetry.
He darts his beams on the
lark’s mossy house,
And from his quiet tenement
doth rouse
The little charming and harmonious
fowl
Which sings its lump of body
to a soul.
Swiftly it clambers up in
the steep air
With warbling notes, and makes
each note a stair.
[59] Sir Roger L’Estrange gives the names of the people attacked.
[60] One of Cromwell’s principal officers.
[61] Thus familiarly called, no doubt owing to the custom of giving pet names to jesters.
[62] Guardian, Vol. I. No. 2.
[63] Fence.
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