Excerpt from Civitas: The Romance of Our Nation's LifeCivitas.Introduction.The poets, who, in superstitious times, Gave fancy wing, and told their dreams in rhymes, Might ask assistance from those cultured spritesWho occupied, of yore, Olympus heights, To Sinai or Parnassus might they go, As well as other places, high and low, A goddess, muse or something else invoke, From God's own spirit down to Bolingbroke, For in their songs the gods held ...
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