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But the great Source and Patent of the Day,
Fashion'd the Creature, and inform'd the Clay.

Weak of herself, my Muse forbears her flight,
Views her own Lowness, and Parnassus' Height;
But when you aid her Song, and deign to nod,
She spreads a bolder Wing, and feels the present God.

So the Cumæan Prophetess was dumb,
Blind to the Knowledge of Events to come;
But when Apollo in her Breast abode,
She heav'd, the swell'd, she felt the rushing God;
Then Accents more than mortal from her broke,
And what the God inspir'd, the Priestess spoke.

 

Endpiece from 'Poems on Several Occasions' by William Broome (1739, 2nd edition)

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