Part 3
Listen to the Muse's lyre, Master of the pencil's fire! Sketch'd in painting's bold display, Many a city first pourtray; Many a city revelling free, Warm with loose festivity. Picture then a rosy train, Bacchants straying o'er the plain; Piping, as they roam along, Roundelay or shepherd-song.
Paint me next, if painting may Such a theme as this pourtray, All the happy heaven of love, These elect of Cupid prove.
_ODE XLV._
As late I sought the spangled bowers, To cull a wreath of matin flowers, Where many an early rose was weeping, I found the urchin Cupid sleeping. I caught the boy, a goblet's tide Was richly mantling by my side, I caught him by his downy wing, And whelm'd him in the racy spring.
Oh! then I drank the poison'd bowl, And Love now nestles in my soul! Yes, yes, my soul is Cupid's nest, I feel him fluttering in my breast.
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Transcriber's Notes
In Ode III, beginning of last line on page 26, the word 'The' is mostly illegible and has been added by comparison with another version of the text.
In Ode III, after the phrase 'my blissful visions fly?', the missing punctuation mark ' has been added.
In Ode VII, after 'rapid race', period has been replaced with comma.
In Ode X, after the phrase 'who murder sleep!' The single quotation mark ' has been deleted.
In Ode XXIII, after the phrase 'wish for liberty', the missing punctuation marks ?' have been added.
There are three words with the [oe] ligature. This is normalised to 'oe' in the text file; in the HTML file the ligature has been retained.
There is one word with the 'ae' ligature; this has been retained in both versions.