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From purling Streams & the Elysian Scene, / From Groves, that smile with never-fading Green / I reascend; in Atropos' despight / Restored to Celadon, & upper light: / Ye gods, that sway the Regions under ground, / Reveal to mortal View your realms profound; / At his command admit the eye of Day; / When Celadon commands, what God can disobey?
Nor seeks he your Tartarean fires to know, / The house of Torture, & th' Abyss of Woe; / But happy fields & Mansions free from Pain, / Gay Meads, & springing flowers best please the gentle Swain: / That little, naked, melancholy thing / My Soul, when first she tryed her flight to wing; / Began with speed new Regions to explore, / And blunder'd thro' a narrow Postern door; / First most devoutly having said its Prayers, / It tumbled down a thousand pair of Stairs, / Thro' Entries long, thro' Cellars vast & deep, / Where ghostly Rats their habitations keep, / Where Spiders spread their Webs, & owlish Goblins sleep.