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Tht dawn of Learning from Valclusa's brow
'Twas mine to mark: but Thou with eagle eye
Couldst follow, when her Glory climb'd the sky,
And tell the conflict with her deadly foe,
Dark Superstition - with imperial Pride
And Passion leagued, whose dim suffusion veil'd
The blessed beam, while bigot Fury steel'd
The heart, rebellious to the heavenly Guide.
This Petrarch saw; and long deplored, like Thee,
The Demon's fraud, that check'd the powers of Mind
Blending her light with deep Tartarean stain,
O may thy name assist his solemn plea
In Virtue's cause! and Sorgia's Flowers, combin'd
With Mersey's wreath, immortalise the strain!
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