...obeys the power. She comes! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread...

...obeys the power. She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old! Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires, As one by one, at dread...

...primum, quem postremum, aspera Virgo, Dejicis ? aut quot humi morientia corpora fundis ?" Virg. W.\ Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread...

...primum, quem postremum, asptra Virgo, Dejicis ? aut quot humi morientia corpora fundis ?" Virg. W.\ Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread...

...obeys the power. She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primœval, and of Chaos old I b f jJa shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one at dread...

...the power. She comes ! she comea 1 the sable throne behold Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! 030 Before her, fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain, its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread...

...Chaos, here represented as advancing to extinguish the light of the Of night primeval, and of Chaps old 630 Before her, fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain his momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread...

...She comee ! she comes ! &c.] Here the muse, like- Jove's eagle, after a sudden stoop at ignoble game, to hope a poet for their friend 7 What Richlieu wanted, Louis scarce could shoots in vain his momentary tires. The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread...

...She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold* Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! Before herj fancy's gilded clouds decay; And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread...

...Muse obeys the power. She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! • 630 Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away : Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread...