Mark’d[21] with Gibsonian lore; forth issue clouds,

Thought-thrilling, thirst-inciting clouds around,

And many-mining fires: I all the while,

Lolling at ease, inhale[22] the breezy balm.

But chief, when Bacchus wont with thee to join

In genial strife and orthodoxal ale,

Stream[23] life and joy into the Muses’ bowl.

Oh be thou still my great inspirer, thou

My Muse; oh fan me with thy zephyrs boon,

While I, in clouded tabernacle shrin’d,