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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.

Such was the 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