All Nature’s loveliest scenes with majesty,

And glory greater: beauty’s self ’tis he,

Who robes with radiant mantle, and endows

Her eye with language eloquent, while flows

Soft music from her voice; ’tis he who lends

To her the magic irresistible,

And fatal, which her smile and look attends,

Making men mad and drunk beneath her spell.

If on the marble’s sleeping forms he breathe,

To life they start the chisel’s touch beneath: