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Rh Revolving periods pat, may oft look back With recollected tendernes, on all The various buy cenes he left below, Its deep laid projects and its trange events, As on ome fond and doting tale that ooth'd Her infant hours; O be it lawful now To tread the hallow'd circle of your courts, And with mute wonder and delighted awe Approach your burning confines. Seiz'd in thought On fancy's wild and roving wing I ail, From the green borders of the peopled earth, And the pale moon, her duteous fair attendant; From olitary Mars; from the vat orb Of Jupiter, whoe huge gigantic bulk Dances in ether like the lightet leaf; To the dim verge, the uburbs of the ytem, Where cheerles Saturn 'midt his wat'ry moons Girt with a lucid zone, in gloomy pomp, Sits