“Beloved of Heaven! the smiling Muse shall shed

Her moonlight halo on thy beauteous head;

Shall swell thy heart to rapture unconfined,

And breathe a holy madness o’er thy mind.

I see thee roam her guardian power beneath,

And talk with spirits on the midnight heath;

Enquire of guilty wanderers whence they came,

And ask each blood-stained form his earthly name;

Then weave in rapid verse the deeds they tell,

And read the trembling world the tales of hell.