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E diftant fpires, ye antique towers,
That crown the wa'try glade,

Where grateful science ftill adores
Her HENRY's holy shade * ;

* King Henry VI. founder of the College.

And ye, that from the ftately brow
Of WINDSOR's heights th' expanfe below
Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey,
Whofe turf, whofe fhade, whofe flowers

among

Wanders the hoary Thames along
His filver-winding way:

Ah happy hills, ah pleafing fhade, Ah fields belov'd in vain,

Where once my careless childhood stray'd,
A ftranger yet to pain!

I feel the gales that from ye blow,
A momentary bliss bestow;

As waving fresh their gladsome wing,
My weary foul they seem to footh,
And, * redolent of joy and youth,
To breathe a fecond fpring.

Say, Father THAMES, for thou haft feen

Full many a sprightly race

And bees their honey redolent of fpring.
Dryden's Fable on the Pythag. Syftem

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