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304 THE SCHOOL Towards the crescent moon with grateful heart Call'd on the lovely wanderer who bestow'd That timely light to share his joyous sport And hence beaming goddess with her nymphs Across the lawn and through the darksome grove Not unaccompanied with tuneful notes By echo multiplied from rock or cave Swept in the storm of chase as moon and stars Glance rapidly along the clouded heaven When winds are blowing strong VIII -Cranilati into βι-eeit amines How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank Here will we sit and let the sounds of musick Creep in our ears soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony Sit Jessica Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubim Such harmony is in immortal souls But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in we cannot hear it IX -Cvanslatc into πύ $r0£tt Pericles confirmed his authority principally by that great instrument for the management of people his eloquence but this was supported by unremitting assiduity in public business and evident superiority of capacity for the conduct of it and above all by an ostentatious integrity The whole Athenian commonwealth thus with all its appurtenances or in the words