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Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.

Samuel Johnson, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Gray, Tobias Smollett, George Gilfillan (1855). “The Poetical Works of Johnson: Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, with Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes”, p.201
Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.