The Virtuous Mind That Ever

There Swift Return Diurnal, Merely To Officiate Light Round This Opacous Earth, This Punctual Spot.

See Golden Days, Fruitful Of Golden Deeds, With Joy And Love Triumphing.

Capricious, Wanton, Bold, And Brutal Lust Is Meanly Selfish; When Resisted, Cruel; And, Like The Blast Of Pestilential Winds, Taints The Sweet Bloom Of Nature's Fairest Forms.

Ornate Rhetorick Taught Out Of The Rule Of Plato.... To Which Poetry Would Be Made Subsequent, Or Indeed Rather Precedent, As Being Less Suttle And Fine, But More Simple, Sensuous, And Passionate.

Anon Out Of The Earth A Fabric Huge Rose, Like An Exhalation.