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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=114996" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Mr. Bleecker</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes, I invok'd the Muses' aid<br>To help me write, for 'tis their trade;<br>But only think, ungrateful Muses,<br>They sent dame Iris with excuses,<br>They'd other business for to follow,<br>Beg'd I'd apply to God Apollo.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The God said, as heav'n's charioteer,<br>He had no time to mind us here;<br>Said if we rac'd round earth like Phoebus<br>One day, it sadly would fatigue us;<br>Yet we expect, when tir'd at night,<br>He'd stay from bed to help us write:<br>Nor need we ask his sister Phoebe,<br>For turning round had made her giddy;<br>Her inspiration would confuse us,<br>So counsell'd us to coax the Muses.<br>Quite disappointed at this lecture<br>I left his worship sipping nectar;<br>But, pettishly as I left his dome,<br>It chanc'd I met the Goddess Wisdom.<br>No wonder she is wife, 'tis said<br>She was the product of Jove's head.<br>'Bright Queen,' said I, 'in these abodes<br>'I beg'd a favour of the Gods:<br>'They wish'd the poets at the devil,<br>'And the nine ladies were uncivil:<br>'Apollo told me he was lazy,<br>'And call'd his sister Phoebe crazy.<br>'Permit me then your kind protection;<br>'From you I cannot fear rejection.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tritonia gave me smiles and nods,<br>(The unsual compliments of Gods,)<br>And look'd benign as rising sun,<br>Which gave me courage to go on.<br>'---Oh Goddess! let your powerful arms<br>'Keep young Ulyssus from all harms;<br>'Attend him in each strange adventure,<br>'And be, in human form, his mentor:<br>'Oh bid him shun Circean feasts,<br>'Whose magic pow'r turns men to beasts;<br>'Nor let him touch the fatal tree,<br>'Lest he forget Penelope:<br>'Keep him from a Calypso's arms,<br>'And all the treacherous Syren's charms:<br>'In Cyclop cells let him not enter;<br>'Permit him not at games to venture;<br>'Sure as he does, he is undone,<br>'Each sharper is a lestrigon;<br>'Nor city luxury inure him,<br>'To be a modern epicurian;<br>'(For Temperance, celestial maid,<br>'Is still a virtue of the shade:)<br>'And dire diseases burn each vein<br>'Of those who Temperance prophane,<br>'And kill her sacred beeves in vain.<br>'The Grecians once to Pluto's glooms<br>'So sunk for slaughter'd hecatombs.<br>'If men believ'd in transmigration,<br>'How would it spare the brute creation?<br>'But, Goddess! let him soon return,<br>'Nor twice ten years in absence mourn;<br>'To those who love, a month appears<br>'As long as twenty tedious years.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Minerva rais'd her ægis high,<br>That blaz'd effulgence thro' the sky,<br>And, smiling took the common oath,<br>To be immensely kind to both;<br>Then down from heaven's pure æther flew<br>Swifter than light---in search of you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ann+Eliza+Bleecker">Ann Eliza Bleecker</a> from <i>The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker</i><div class=q>
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