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While others chant of gay Elysian scenes, / Of balmy zephyrs, and of flow'ry plains, / My song more happy speaks a greater name, / Feels higher motives and a nobler flame.
For thee, O R -- -- , the muse attunes her strings, / And mounts sublime above inferior things.