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lirik lagu richard mitchley - ode to beauty by henry james pye

enchanting power! whose influence blest
o’er nature reigns with pleasing sway
whose mild command each gentler breast
enraptur’d glories to obey:
o give my ravish’d sense to trace
in every form thy polish’d grace
whether thy footsteps deign to tread
the level of the enamel’d mead
whether thou joy’st to haunt the dale
or drink the mountain’s ambient gale
or, with a morе ambitious aim
to animate the human frame
bid thе bright eye resistless charm
the snowy bosom swell, or shape the ivory arm

when at the eternal’s dread command
from chaos rose this fabric fair
he bade thy ornamenting hand
o’er all creation spread it’s care
by thee was earth’s maternal breast
involv’d in verdure’s radiant vest
heaven’s sp~cious arch thy tints embue
with the deep azure’s dazzling hue
o’er the bleak hill thy order bade
the forest spread luxuriant shade
thy fingers through the irriguous mead
the river’s shining current lead
till it’s increasing waters gain
the unconfin’d expanse of ocean’s vast domain
glows not a shrub with vivid bloom
mid the recesses of the vale;
sheds not a flower it’s rich perfume
to scent the pinions of the gale;
waves not a beech it’s leafy bough
to shade the mountain’s h~~ry brow;
bends not an osier dank to lave
it’s branches in the passing wave
down the rude cliff’s tremendous side
pours not a stream it’s whitening tide
nor arch’d by silver poplars, cool
spreads it’s smooth breast the lucid pool
but every muse shall read thy care
shall trace thy vagrant step, and mark thy pencil there

but in the lovely virgin’s eye
and polish’d form, and blooming face
thy fairest l~stre we descry
and gaze upon thy purest grace
ah say! can all the mingled flowers
whose roseate leaves, the circling hours
on earth’s green bosom lavish fling
when genial zephyr breathes the spring
please like the maid whose charms inspire
the glowing wish of young desire?
though blush with varied dyes the trees
though sweets ambrosial load the breeze
flies every bloom, fades every green
till female beauty deign to crown the enchanting scene
beneath the spicy forest’s shade
the indian breathes his amorous vow
where ice eternal binds the glade
thy power the frozen zemblians know;
for there thy beam with heavenly light
has chear’d the gloom of polar night
where to the eunuch’s servile care
luxury commits the imprison’d fair
there o’er the desolated plains
stern slavery unresisted reigns
but where love’s gentle rights are known
which mutual freedom gives alone
there courage dwells, ingenuous shame
and virtue’s holy meed, and glory’s ardent flame

but though the smiling landscape spread
it’s richest views on every side
though waves each oak it’s solemn head
in all the pomp of leafy pride:
what pleasure shall these scenes impart
how soothe to rest the laboring heart
if malice fell, or black despair
or keen remorse inhabit there?
and say can all the charms that lie
in hebe’s cheek, or helen’s eye
delight, if scorn, or cold disdain
or changes desultory reign
or jealousy’s tormenting sway
usurp the power of love, or cloud his golden ray
’tis in the conscious mind alone
that beauty shews her purest beam
there stands secure her lasting throne
not idly borne on fancy’s stream:
though the rude blast, and wintry storm
the blooming landscape’s charms deform
though withering time, or pale disease
bid the wan cheek no longer please
yet if within the feeling breast
soft pity dwell a welcome guest
if smiling peace, and meekness sweet
and constancy there fix their seat;
then shall thy charms despise the rage
of winter’s dreary frown, and mock the force of age

- lirik lagu richard mitchley

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