Crossword-Solution: ATTEMPER 8 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

And when the nighte past and run Was, and the newe day begun, — The young morrow with rayes red, Which from the sun all o’er gan spread, Attemper’d* cleare was and fair, *clement, calm And made a time of wholesome air, — Befell a wondrous case* and strange *chance, event Among the people, and gan change Soon the word, and ev’ry woe Unto a joy, and some to two.

Forgotten had the earth his poor estate Of winter, that him naked made and mate,* *dejected, lifeless And with his sword of cold so sore grieved; Now hath th’attemper* sun all that releaved** *temperate **furnished That naked was, and clad it new again.

There from the portal, with her mild command, Thus gently checks the minstrel’s tuneful hand: “Phemius! let acts of gods, and heroes old, What ancient bards in hall and bower have told, Attemper’d to the lyre, your voice employ; Such the pleased ear will drink with silent joy.

The roughest wrath of Russians, when they swear, Pronounced by thee, flows soft as Indian air; And dulcet breath, attemper'd by thine eyes, Gives British prose o'er Tuscan verse the prize.

Still let them give sage counsel, back the good, Attemper wrath, and cool impetuous blood, Praise the spare meal that pleases but not sates, Justice, and law, and peace with unbarred gates, Conceal all secrets, and the gods implore To crush the proud and elevate the poor.