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Here calm phylosophy to maniacs bow'd Here Rumour's progeny upheld her reign Here science mingl'd with the babbling crowd Whom rapture beckon'd 'mid delusions train And Bacchus' goblet with his gift o'erflow'd 'Till the nectar'd [[underline]] juice [[/underline]] bestain'd the chequer'd road. Here oft the spendthrift of unvalued hours Survey'd with apathy the ills of time Who heav'n directed, circumscrib'd his pow'rs, 'Till all his honours flitted like a dream Melted by recreant [[underline]] guilt's [[/underline]] intolerable beam. Ah whither are those myriad taste combin'd Who leagued the moral canons to destroy? Ah where those lawless tumults of the mind That wit call'd madness, & the madd'ning joy? All, all are vanish'd from th'astonish'd sight Sunk beneath hope's [[underline]] bright smile; [[/underline]] & shrouded in the night. Those walls which echo'd with a lover's sigh And gave responsive many an idiot's tale,
