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Poems on
Where Passions are beheld in Picture wrought,
And animated Colours look a Thought:
Rare Art! on whose Command all Nature waits!
It copies all Omnipotence creates;
Here crown'd with Mountains Earth expanded lies,
There the proud Seas with all their Billows rise;
If Life be drawn, responsive to the Thought
The breathing Figures live throughout the Draught;
The mimic Bird in Skies fictitious moves,
Or fancy'd Beasts in imitated Groves:
Ev'n Heav'n it climbs; and from the forming Hands
An Angel here, and there a [1]Townshend stands.
And animated Colours look a Thought:
Rare Art! on whose Command all Nature waits!
It copies all Omnipotence creates;
Here crown'd with Mountains Earth expanded lies,
There the proud Seas with all their Billows rise;
If Life be drawn, responsive to the Thought
The breathing Figures live throughout the Draught;
The mimic Bird in Skies fictitious moves,
Or fancy'd Beasts in imitated Groves:
Ev'n Heav'n it climbs; and from the forming Hands
An Angel here, and there a [1]Townshend stands.
Yet, Painter, yet, tho' Art with Nature strive,
Tho' ev'n the lovely Phantom seem alive,
Submit thy vanquish'd Art! and own the Draught
Tho' fair, defective, and a beauteous Fault;
Tho' ev'n the lovely Phantom seem alive,
Submit thy vanquish'd Art! and own the Draught
Tho' fair, defective, and a beauteous Fault;
Charms
- ↑ Now Lady Cornwallis.
