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Imagination! who can sing thy force?
Or who describe the swiftness of thy course?

Soaring through air to find the bright abode,

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Th' empyreal palace of the thund'ring God,
W,e on thy pinions can surpass the wind,
And leave the rolling universe behind:
From star to star the mental optics rove,

Measure the skies, and range the realms above.

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There in one view we grasp the mighty whole,
Or with new worlds amaze th' unbounded soul.

Though Winter frowns to Fancy's raptur'd eyes
The fields may flourish, and gay scenes arise;

The frozen deeps may break their iron bands,

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And bid their waters murmur o'er the sands.
Fair Flora may resume her fragrant reign,
And with her flow'ry riches deck the plain;
Sylvanus may diffuse his honours round,

And all the forest may with leaves be crown'd:

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