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Though with gods the world is cumbered, / Gods unnamed, and gods unnumbered, / Never god was known to be / Who had not his devotee. / So I dedicate to mine, / Here in verse, my temple-shrine.
'Tis not Ares,-mighty Mars, / Who can give success in wars. / 'Tis not Morpheus, who doth keep / Guard above us while we sleep, / 'Tis not Venus, she whose duty / 'Tis to give us love and beauty; / Hail to these, and others, after / Momus, gleesome god of laughter.