To Lysis

A CURSE upon the kind of old
Who would have kidnapt all the Muses!
Whether to barter them for gold
Or keep them for his proper uses.
Lysis! aware he meant them ill,
Birds they became, and flew away . .
Thy Muse alone continues still
A titmouse to this very day.
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