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"Remains for me, all doubting, where to cull
"The primal grace, where countless graces charm.
"Various this peaceful scene; this mineral roof;
"This 'semblage meet of coral, ore, and shell;
"These pointed crystals fair, mid each obscure
"Bright glist'ring; all these slowly-dripping rills,
"That tinkling stray amid the cooly cave.
"Yet not this various peaceful scene; with this
"Its mineral roof; nor this assemblage meet
"Of coral, ore, and shell; nor mid th' obscure
"These pointed crystals, glist'ring fair; nor rills,
"That straying tinkle thro' the cooly cave;
"Deal charms more various to each raptur'd sense,
"Than thy mellifluous lay———"
"Cease, friendly swain;
(Musæus cry'd, and rais'd his aching head)
"All praise is foreign, but of true desert;
"Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart.
"The primal grace, where countless graces charm.
"Various this peaceful scene; this mineral roof;
"This 'semblage meet of coral, ore, and shell;
"These pointed crystals fair, mid each obscure
"Bright glist'ring; all these slowly-dripping rills,
"That tinkling stray amid the cooly cave.
"Yet not this various peaceful scene; with this
"Its mineral roof; nor this assemblage meet
"Of coral, ore, and shell; nor mid th' obscure
"These pointed crystals, glist'ring fair; nor rills,
"That straying tinkle thro' the cooly cave;
"Deal charms more various to each raptur'd sense,
"Than thy mellifluous lay———"
"Cease, friendly swain;
(Musæus cry'd, and rais'd his aching head)
"All praise is foreign, but of true desert;
"Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart.
"Ah!
