"But still in Fancy's mirror sees / Some more romantic scene would please, / There within a nook most dark, / Where none my musing mood may mark, / Let me, in many a whisper'd rite, / The Genius old of Greece invite, / With that fair wreath my brows to bind, / Which for his chosen imps he twin'd, / Well nurtur'd in Pierian lore, / On clear Ilissus' laureat shore-- / Till high on waving nest reclin'd, / The raven wakes my tranced mind!"
Ode on the Approach of Summer
Warton's ode was first published in <u>The Union: or Select Scots and English Poems</u> (Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Monro and David Murray, 1753) &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3310227415&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;. But the couplet that begins "But still in Fancy's mirror..." is a later addition, appearing in 1759: "But still in fancy's mirror seen / Some more romantic scene would please." See <u>The Union: or, Select Scots and English Poems</u> (London: Printed for R. Baldwin, 1759), pp. 88-9. &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3315619793&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Found searching in ECCO-TCP. Text from <u>A Collection of Poems in Four Volumes. By Several Hands</u> (London: Printed for G. Pearch, 1770). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004876766.0001.001">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt; 