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die Einbildungskraft noch millionenmal mehr herbeigefuͤhrt haben.

Fancy, Nymph, that loves to lie

On the lonely eminence,

Darting notice through the eye,

Forming thought and feasting sense: Companion of the Muse, creative power. Imagination! at whose great command Arise unnumber'd images of things,. Thy hourly offspring. Thou, who canst at will People with airborn shapes the silent wood And solitary vale, thy own domain,

Where contemplation haunts; ocome, invoked, To waft me on thy many- tinctur'd wing

O'er earth's extendid space, and thence on high Spread to superior worlds thy bolder flight

Excursive, unconfin'd. Hence from the haunts

4 Of vice, and folly, vanity, and Man!*)

*) Phantaſte, Nymphe, die gern auf der einſamen Höhe ſich lagert, Kunde durchs Au⸗ ge blitzend, Gedanken bildend, und die Sinne ergetzend; Begleiterin der Muſen, ſchoͤpferiſche Macht, Einbildungskraft! auf deren maͤchtigen