And spirits of the skies all come and go

Early and late;

From the old world’s divine and distant date,

From the sublimer few,

Down to the poet who but yester-eve

Sang sweet and made us grieve,

All come, assembling here in order due.

And here I dwell with Poesy, my mate,

With Erato and all her vernal sighs,

Great Clio with her victories elate,