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INVOCATION TO THE MUSES, by                    
First Line: Awake! Ye tuneful nine, and sing
Last Line: Such lustre as their dewy eyne.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Spring


AWAKE! ye tuneful Nine, and sing
The budding glories of the Spring.
Awake! and sweep each sounding lyre,
Breathe on the strings celestial fire!
Euterpe first, with her soft flute,
Shall bid the whistling winds be mute,
And after her let each in turn
Reveal the thoughts that inward burn.
And you, ye Nymphs, that haunt the grove,
Whose only travail is to love,
Who all night long in revel gay
Prolong the scenes ye shun by day,
And, circling round your Fairy Queen,
In sprightly dance rejoice unseen,
Awake! and on transparent wing
Swell the brave chorus of the Spring!

The children of the awakening Year
Are worthy of your tenderest care;
The first to greet you every day,
And spread their incense in your way,—
Impearl'd in robes of transient lawn,
The delicate foldings of the dawn,—
Each little face o'erbrimm'd with joy,
And blushing like a maiden coy.
And when the sun with orient wings
His glittering splendour round them flings,
No jewel from the pearly seas,
No wavelet flick'd before the breeze,
E'er shed upon the freshening brine
Such lustre as their dewy eyne.





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