Date: 1752, 1790
Apollo's "sacred fire" inspires the bard's breast, "Like the fair empty sheet he hangs to view, / Void, and unfurnish'd, till inspir'd by you."
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Date: 1752, 1790
"O let one beam, one kind inlightning ray / At once upon his mind and paper play!"
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Date: 1752, 1790
"The yielding paper's pure, but vacant breast, / By her fair hand and flowing pen imprest, / At ev'ry touch more animated grows."
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