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Chapter 5 | |
| Hymn to the Divinity of Dreams |
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THEE I invoke, blest pow'r of dreams divine, |
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Angel of future fates, swift wings are thine: |
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Great source of oracles to human kind, |
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When stealing soft, and whisp'ring to the mind, |
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Thro' sleep's sweet silence and the gloom of night, |
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Thy pow'r awakes th' intellectual fight; |
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To silent souls the will of heav'n relates, |
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And silently reveals their future fates. |
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For ever friendly to the upright mind |
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Sacred and pure, to holy rites inclin'd; |
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For these with pleasing hope thy dreams inspire, |
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Bliss to anticipate, which all desire. |
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Thy visions manifest of fate disclose, |
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What methods best may mitigate our woes; |
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Reveal what rites the Gods immortal please, |
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And what the means their anger to appease: |
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For ever tranquil is the good man's end, |
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Whose life, thy dreams admonish and defend. |
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But from the wicked turn'd averse to bless, |
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Thy form unseen, the angel of distress; |
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No means to cheek approaching ill they find, |
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Pensive with fears, and to the future blind. |
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Come, blessed pow'r, the signatures reveal |
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Which heav'n's decrees mysteriously conceal, |
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Signs only present to the worthy mind, |
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Nor omens ill disclose of monst'rous kind. |
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