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F Bodies chang'd to various Forms I sing: Ye Gods, from whom these Miracles did spring, Inspire my Numbers with Cœlestial Heat; Till I, my long laborious Work compleat: And add perpetual Tenour to my Rhimes, Deduc'd from Nature's Birth, to Cæsar's Times. Before the Seas, and this Terrestrial Ball, And Heav'ns high Canopy, that covers all, One was the Face of Nature; if a Face, Rather a rude and indigested Mass: Rh