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Ralph Waldo Emerson, comp. (1803–1882). Parnassus: An Anthology of Poetry. 1880.

Song: ‘Spring all the graces of the age’

Ben Jonson (1572–1637)

Neptune’s Triumph

SPRING all the graces of the age,

And all the Loves of time;

Bring all the pleasures of the stage,

And relishes of rhyme:

Add all the softnesses of Courts,

The looks, the laughters, and the sports:

And mingle all their sweets and salts

That none may say the triumph halts.