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Rh Him Phoebus, lending to darkness colour and form
 * Of light's excess, many lessons and counsels gave,

Showed Wisdom lord of the human intricate swarm,
 * And whence prophetic it looks on the hives that rave,

And how acquired, of the zeal of love to acquire,
 * And where it stands, in the centre of life a sphere;

And Measure, mood of the lyre, the rapturous lyre,
 * He said was Wisdom, and struck him the notes to hear.

Sweet, sweet: 'twas glory of vision, honey, the breeze
 * In heat, the run of the river on root and stone,

All senses joined, as the sister Pierides
 * Are one, uplifting their chorus, the Nine, his own.

In stately order, evolved of sound into sight,
 * From sight to sound intershifting, the man descried

The growths of Earth, his adored, like day out of night,
 * Ascend in song, seeing nature and song allied.