For every maid is willing to be won.

Before the lords of verse a suppliant stand,

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And beg our passage through the fairy land:

Beg more—to search for sweets each blooming field,

And crop the blossoms woods and valleys yield;

To snatch the tints that beam on Fancy's bow,

And feel the fires on Genius' wings that glow;

Praise without meanness, without flattery stoop,

Soothe without fear, and without trembling hope.