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 Then Towns he quicken'd by mechanic Arts, And bade the fervent City glow with Toil; Bade social Commerce raise renowned Marts, Join Land to Land, and marry Soil to Soil, Unite the Poles, and without bloody Spoil Bring home of either Ind the gorgeous Stores; Or, should Despotic Rage the World embroil, Bade Tyrants tremble on remotest Shores,

The drooping Muses then he westward call'd, From the fam'd City by Propontis Sea, What Time the Turk th'enfeebled Grecian thrall'd; Thence from their cloister'd Walks he set them free, And brought them to another Castalie: Where Isis many a famous Noursling breeds; Or where old Cam soft-paces o'er the Lea, In pensive Mood, and tunes his Doric Reeds,