The Graces these; and see how they contend,
Who most shall praise, who best shall recommend?
The Chariot now the painful steep ascends;
The Pœans cease; thy glorious labour ends.
Here fix'd, the bright eternal Temple stands,
Its prospect an unbounded view commands:
Say, wondrous youth, what Column wilt thou chuse,
What laurell'd Arch for thy triumphant Muse?
Tho' each great Ancient court thee to his shrine,
Tho' ev'ry Laurel thro the dome be thine;
(From the proud Epic, down to those that shade
The gentler brow of the soft Lesbian maid)
Go to the Good and Just, an awful train,
Thy soul's delight, and glory of the Fane:
While thro' the earth thy dear remembrance flies,
"Sweet to the world, and grateful to the skies.
Who most shall praise, who best shall recommend?
The Chariot now the painful steep ascends;
The Pœans cease; thy glorious labour ends.
Here fix'd, the bright eternal Temple stands,
Its prospect an unbounded view commands:
Say, wondrous youth, what Column wilt thou chuse,
What laurell'd Arch for thy triumphant Muse?
Tho' each great Ancient court thee to his shrine,
Tho' ev'ry Laurel thro the dome be thine;
(From the proud Epic, down to those that shade
The gentler brow of the soft Lesbian maid)
Go to the Good and Just, an awful train,
Thy soul's delight, and glory of the Fane:
While thro' the earth thy dear remembrance flies,
"Sweet to the world, and grateful to the skies.
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