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Show 146 ORIGIN OF SOCIETY. CANTO I V. With fruits and foliage decks the barren waste, And brightens Life with sentiment and taste ; 190 Pleased o'er the level and the rule presides, The painter's brush, the sculptor's chissel guides, With ray ethereal lights the poet's fire, Tunes the rude pipe, or strings the heroic lyre: Charm'd round the nymph on frolic foot steps move The angelic forms of Beauty, Grace, and Love. " So dreams the Patriot, who indignant draws The sword of vengeance in his Country's cause; Bright for his brows unfading honours bloom, Or kneeling Virgins weep around his tomb. 200 So holy transports in the cloister's shade Play round thy toilet, visionary maid\ Charm'd o'er thy bed celestial voices sing, And Seraphs hover on enamour' d wing. " So HowARD, MoiRA, BuRDETT, sought the cells, Where want, or woe, or guilt in darkness dwells |