An INSCRIPTION. Quercus loquitur. O YE! Nicholas Herbert Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T131163 K104099.003 Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. III. London printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley 1763 [1st ed. 1758] p. 208. 6v.: music; 8⁰.

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An INSCRIPTION . Quercus loquitur . O YE ! WHO by retirement to these sacred groves Impregnate fancy , and on thought divine Build harmony — If sudden glow your breast With inspiration , and the rapt'rous song Bursts from a mind unconscious whence it sprang : — Know that the sisters of these hallow'd haunts , Dryad or Hamadryad , tho' no more From Jove to man prophetick truths they sing ; Are still attendant on the lonely bard , Who step by step these silent woods among Wanders contemplative , lifting the soul From lower cares , by every whisp'ring breeze Tun'd the poetick mood ; and fill the mind With truths oracular , themselves of old Deign'd utter from the Dodonean shrine .