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O ever gracious Airs from Arcady! / What lack is there of any jocund thing / In glancing wit or glad imagining / Capricious fancy may not find in thee? -- / The laugh of Momus, tempered daintily / To lull the ear and lure its listening; / The whistled syllables the birds of spring / Flaunt ever at our guessings what they be; / The wood, the seashore, and the clanging town; / The pets of fashion, and the ways of such; / The _robe de chambre_, and the russet gown; / The lordling's carriage, and the pilgrim's crutch -- / From hale old Chaucer's wholesomeness, clean down / To our artistic Dobson's deftest touch!