From the Poets we learn, that an Artist of Greece

From the Poets we learn, that an Artist of Greece
On pinions of wax, flew over the seas;
And as bold an attempt we were taught to admire,
When we saw with our eyes the Italian High-flyer;
But when next he ascends in his airy baloon,
If himself he excels, and flies over the moon,
All Europe shall ring of an action so hardy,
And the world shall be fill’d with the fame of Lunardi!

Chorus.
Lunardi for ever!
Sing a Hero so clever,
So brave and victorious,
So happy and glorious,
Sing a Hero so clever,
Lunardi for ever!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “LUNARDI for ever! An Air for Three Voices.” This hymn appears in the ca. 1785 manuscript “MS Miscellaneous Poems.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/559, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 2). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 3 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1992), pages 388-89.
Publishing: Public Domain