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Rejoicing listen'd, godlike Words to hear;
To hear the sweet Instructress tell
(While Men and Heroes throng'd around)
How Life its noblest Use may find,
How best for Freedom be resign'd;
And how by Glory Virtue shall be crown'd.

II. 1.

Such was the ^[1]Chian Father's Strain

To many a kind domestic Train,
Whose pious Hearth and genial Bowl
Had chear'd the reverend Pilgrim's Soul:
When, every hospitable Rite
With equal Bounty to requite,
He struck his magic Strings;

And

1. Homer.