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Say, did it thou give the mighty Seas their Bars,
Fill Air with Fowl, or light up Heav'n with Stars,
Whose thousand times ten thousand Lamps display
A friendly Radiance, mingling Ray with Ray?
Say, canst thou rule the Coursers of the Sun,
Or lash the lazy Sign, Boötes on?
Dost thou instruct the Eagle how to fly,
To mount the viewless Winds, and tow'r the Sky?
On sounding Pinions born, he soars, and shrouds
His proud aspiring Head among the Clouds;
$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$Strong-pounc'd, and fierce, he darts upon his Prey,
He fails in triumph thro' th' ethereal Way,
Bears on the Sun, and basks in open Day.
Does the dread King, and Terror of the Wood,
The Lion, from thy Hand expect his Food?
Stung with keen Hunger from his Den he comes,
Ranges the Plains, and o'er the Forest roams;

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