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Excerpt from Poems on the Arts
To his sweet lute Apollo sung the motions of the spheres The wondrous order of the stars, whose course divides the years And all the mysteries above But none of this could Midas move, Which purchased him his ass's ears. Then Pan with his rude pipe began the country wealth t' advance, To boast of cattle, flocks of sheep, and goats on hills that dance With much more of this churlish kind, That quite transported Midas' mind, And held him rapt as in a trance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
