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urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.StanzastoMrBentley.English.1716_stbe:1.1	head	Stanzas to Mr Bentley
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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 [...] .