Chief with the Muses loves to dwell,

Leads those who inward feel and burn

And often clasp the abandon’d urn,—

Say, awful God! did’st thou not prove

My heart was formed for Constant love?

Thou saw’st me once on every plain

To Delia pour the artless strain—

Thou wept’sd her death and bad’st me change

My happier days no more to range

O’er hill, o’er dale, in sweet Employ,