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Rh Oft as from stricter hours resign'd I quit the maze where science toils, Do thou refresh my yielding mind With all thy gay, delusive spoils. But, O indulgent, come not nigh The busy steps, the jealous eye Of gainful care and wealthy age, Whose barren souls thy joys disdain, And hold as foes to reason's reign Whome'er thy lovely haunts ingage.

With me, when mirth's consenting band Around fair friendship's genial board Invite thy heart-awakening hand, With me salute the Teian chord. Or if invok'd at softer hours, O seek with me the happy Bow'rs That hear gentle tongue; To beauty link'd with virtue's train, To love devoid of jealous pain, There let the Sapphic lute be strung. But