And Flora prove Minerva’s self to thee.”

LXXV.

He ceas’d; and well I mark’d the prudent lore,

And much revolv’d his saying in my mind;

Bent all the mystic moral to explore,

By this romantic, splendid scene design’d.

LXXVI.

But, the full concert swelling on my ear,

The bands of Sleep dissolv’d, away he flies;

At once the train of phantoms disappear,