LA
DOUCE
CHIMERE
.
SWEET
Fancy
,
let
me
sing
thy
praise
,
Thou
kind
companion
of
my
days
,
Through
infancy
and
youth
;
O
let
me
,
in
a
riper
age
,
Thy
fairy
favours
still
engage
,
And
blend
thy
charms
with
truth
.
Gift
of
kind
heav'n
,
dear
wand'ring
sprite
,
'Tis
thou
canst
opposites
unite
,
And
pleasures
mix
with
pain
;
Without
thy
aid
,
the
sons
of
art
To
charm
the
eye
,
or
touch
the
heart
,
Shall
toil
,
and
toil
in
vain
.
To
warm
,
to
polish
,
and
refine
The
judgment
and
the
taste
,
are
thine
,
To
aid
where
knowledge
fails
;
How
exquisite
thy
finer
sense
,
How
far
beyond
the
vain
pretence
,
Where
letter'd
pride
prevails
!
Through
the
dim
eye
thy
piercing
ray
Beams
Milton
.
on
the
mind
a
brighter
day
,
Where
genius
stands
confess'd
;
'Tis
Michael
de
Cervantes
.
thine
to
light
the
prison's
gloom
,
'Tis
Petrarch
.
thine
to
live
beyond
the
tomb
,
In
fond
affection's
breast
.
Thy
art
can
on
the
moon's
beam
send
The
heart's
warm
wish
from
friend
to
friend
,
Through
air
and
ocean's
waste
,
And
on
some
bright
unchanging
star
,
Though
absent
long
,
and
distant
far
,
Remembrance
may
be
plac'd
.
'Tis
happiness
to
dwell
with
thee
;
Whate'er
we
think
,
whate'er
we
see
,
Glows
with
a
brighter
dye
;
All
nature
wears
a
lively
green
,
The
heav'ns
expand
a
blue
serene
,
And
man
forgets
to
sigh
.
Or
should
a
sigh
unbidden
rise
,
On
thy
light
wing
the
vagrant
flies
,
To
seek
some
tender
woe
,
Our
better
feelings
to
awake
,
Teaching
for
love
,
for
pity's
sake
,
Delicious
tears
to
flow
.
Nor
wealth
can
buy
,
nor
pow'r
command
,
One
circle
from
thy
magic
wand
,
To
charm
the
phantom
care
;
Born
with
the
soul
,
thy
living
light
Beams
forth
in
wayward
fortune's
spite
,
Nor
deigns
her
gifts
to
share
.
Parent
of
hope
,
love's
truest
friend
,
Without
thee
all
our
joys
would
end
,
And
dull
existence
fade
:
'Tis
thine
to
gild
the
darkest
scene
Of
poverty
,
restraint
,
or
pain
,
In
life's
obscurest
shade
.
Let
me
then
still
thy
dreams
pursue
,
For
ever
bright
,
for
ever
new
,
Time's
tangled
path
to
cheer
;
Let
me
believe
I
still
may
find
The
warm
,
sincere
,
congenial
mind
,
And
meet
LA
DOUCE
CHIMERE
.