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Occasional verse, moral and sacred

Published for the instruction and amusement of the Candidly Serious and Religious [by Edward Perronet]
Perronet, Edward (1721-1792)

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TRANSLATION FROM OVID,

Metam. Book I.

At his command, the lawns their bosoms spread,
The woods were clothed, and the vallies fed,
The swelling hills to cloud-capp'd mountains rise,
Seas kiss their shores, and stars salute the skies!
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