Elysian

Departed spirits do not however make a joyful and immediate entrance into these elysian fields, but must first slide for the space of five days, or, according to others, for a still longer period, down a rough rock, which the Greenlanders, by a strange contradiction, represent to be quite bloody.

O who of man the ſtory will unfold, / Ere victory and empire wrought annoy, / In that elyſian age (miſnamed of gold) / The age of love, and innocence and joy, […]