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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: / Her subtle power, more delicately fine, Dwells in each thread, and lives in every line, Whose quick vibrations, without end, impart Pleasure and pain to the responsive heart. As Zephyr's breath the willing chord inspires, Vhispering soft music to the trembliag wires, So, with fond care, I regulate, unseen, The softer movements of this nice machine; Temper, my earthly name, the nurse of Love T f But call'd Sophuosonye in realms above AVhen lovely Woman, perfect at her birth, Blest with her early charms the wond'ring earth, Her soul, in sweet simplicity array'd, Nor shar'd my guidance, nor required my aid. Her tender frame, nor confident nor coy, Had every fibre tun' d to gentle joy: No vain caprices swell'd her pouting lip; No gold produced a mercenary trip; Soft innocence inspir'd her willing kiss, Her love was nature, and her life was bliss. Guide of his reason, not his passion's prey, She tam'd the savage, Man who blest her sway. No jarring wishes fill'd the world with woes, But youth was ecstacy, and age repose. The powers of Mischief met in dark divan, To blast these mighty joys of envied Man: The fiends, at their infernal leader's call, Fram'd their base wiles in Demogorgon's hall, In the deep centre of that dreadful dome, A hellish cauldron boil'd with fiery foam: In this wide urn the circling spirits threw Ingredients harsh, and hideous to the view; While the terrific master of the spell With adjurations shook the depths of Hell, And in dark words unmeet for mortal ear, Hade the dire offspring of his art appear. Forth from the vase, with sullen murmurs, broke A towering mass of pestilential smoke: Emerging from the fog of thickest night, A phantom swells, by slow degrees, to sight; jt. b v T.andtiett . Guide...
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