A Miscellany of Poems consisting of Original Poems, Translations, Pastorals in the Cumberland Dialect, Familiar Epistles, Fables, Songs, and Epigrams, by the late Reverend Josiah Relph ... With a Preface and a Glossary |
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Wrote after reading PAMELA, |
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Wrote after reading PAMELA,
or Virtue rewarded.
What is it, happy Author, say,
That steals thus unperceiv'd away;
That, where but negligence appears,
Dissolves the reader into tears.
That steals thus unperceiv'd away;
That, where but negligence appears,
Dissolves the reader into tears.
Thy pages like thy wondrous theme
Artless and undesigning seem,
Yet warmth to each beholder lend,
And fix him their and Virtue's friend.
Henceforth, ye trifles all, adieu,
Each guilty, and each idle view;
And, virtue, sole-deserving guest,
To thee, still sacred be my breast.
Artless and undesigning seem,
Yet warmth to each beholder lend,
And fix him their and Virtue's friend.
Henceforth, ye trifles all, adieu,
Each guilty, and each idle view;
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To thee, still sacred be my breast.
Yet if a lovely Fair I spy,
Like her whose shade here charms my eye,
The hasty vow, I'll break in part;
For Pamela must share my heart.
Like her whose shade here charms my eye,
The hasty vow, I'll break in part;
For Pamela must share my heart.
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