Lyrical Poems
63. AN ODE TO SIR CLIPSBY CREW

Robert Her

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Here we securely live, and eat

The cream of meat;

And keep eternal fires,

By which we sit, and do divine,

As wine

And rage inspires.

If full, we charm; then call upon

Anacreon

To grace the frantic Thyrse:

And having drunk, we raise a shout

Throughout,

To praise his verse.

Then cause we Horace to be read,

Which sung or said,

A goblet, to the brim,

Of lyric wine, both swell'd and crown'd,

Around

We quaff to him.

Thus, thus we live, and spend the hours

In wine and flowers;

And make the frolic year,

The month, the week, the instant day

To stay

The longer here.

—Come then, brave Knight, and see the cell

Wherein I dwell;

And my enchantments too;

Which love and noble freedom is:—

And this

Shall fetter you.

Take horse, and come; or be so kind

To send your mind,

Though but in numbers few:—

And I shall think I have the heart

Or part

Of Clipsby Crew.

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