urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.StanzastoMrBentley.English.1716_stbe:	edition	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.StanzastoMrBentley.English.1716_stbe:1	eceptext	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.StanzastoMrBentley.English.1716_stbe:1.1	head	stanzas to mr bentley
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.StanzastoMrBentley.English.1716_stbe:1.2	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.StanzastoMrBentley.English.1716_stbe:1.2.1	l	in silent gaze the tuneful choir among,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.StanzastoMrBentley.English.1716_stbe:1.2.2	l	half pleased, half blushing, let the muse admire,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.StanzastoMrBentley.English.1716_stbe:1.2.3	l	while bentley leads her sister-art along,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.StanzastoMrBentley.English.1716_stbe:1.2.4	l	and bids the pencil answer to the lyre.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.StanzastoMrBentley.English.1716_stbe:1.2.5	l	see, in their course, each transitory thought
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.StanzastoMrBentley.English.1716_stbe:1.2.6	l	fixed by his touch a lasting essence take;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.StanzastoMrBentley.English.1716_stbe:1.2.7	l	each dream, in fancy's airy colouring wrought,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.StanzastoMrBentley.English.1716_stbe:1.2.8	l	to local symmetry and life awake!
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.StanzastoMrBentley.English.1716_stbe:1.2.9	l	the tardy rhymes that used to linger on,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.StanzastoMrBentley.English.1716_stbe:1.2.10	l	to censure cold and negligent of fame,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.StanzastoMrBentley.English.1716_stbe:1.2.11	l	in swifter measures animated run,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.StanzastoMrBentley.English.1716_stbe:1.2.12	l	and catch a lustre from his genuine flame.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.StanzastoMrBentley.English.1716_stbe:1.2.13	l	ah! could they catch his strength, his easy grace,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.StanzastoMrBentley.English.1716_stbe:1.2.14	l	his quick creation, his unerring line;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.StanzastoMrBentley.English.1716_stbe:1.2.15	l	the energy of pope they might efface,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.StanzastoMrBentley.English.1716_stbe:1.2.16	l	and dryden's harmony submit to mine.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.StanzastoMrBentley.English.1716_stbe:1.2.17	l	but not to one in this benighted age
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.StanzastoMrBentley.English.1716_stbe:1.2.18	l	is that diviner inspiration given,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.StanzastoMrBentley.English.1716_stbe:1.2.19	l	that burns in shakespeare's or in milton's page,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.StanzastoMrBentley.English.1716_stbe:1.2.20	l	the pomp and prodigality of heaven.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.StanzastoMrBentley.English.1716_stbe:1.2.21	l	as when, conspiring in the diamond's blaze,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.StanzastoMrBentley.English.1716_stbe:1.2.22	l	the meaner gems, that singly charm the sight,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.StanzastoMrBentley.English.1716_stbe:1.2.23	l	together dart their intermingled rays,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.StanzastoMrBentley.English.1716_stbe:1.2.24	l	and dazzle with a luxury of light.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.StanzastoMrBentley.English.1716_stbe:1.2.25	l	enough for me, if to some feeling breast
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.StanzastoMrBentley.English.1716_stbe:1.2.26	l	my lines a secret sympathy [...]
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.StanzastoMrBentley.English.1716_stbe:1.2.27	l	and as their pleasing influence [...]
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.StanzastoMrBentley.English.1716_stbe:1.2.28	l	a sigh of soft reflection [...] .