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To a Friend in Love.
In vain, my Damon, you look pale, and write,
Languish all Day, and sigh away the Night;
For while these inconsistent Forms you try,
She thinks you rival her Inconstancy.
Then show the Man again, and re-assume
The sprightly Pride of One-and-twenty's Bloom:
With Courage take her in your longing Arms,
And when she's conquer'd, she must yield her Charms.
Languish all Day, and sigh away the Night;
For while these inconsistent Forms you try,
She thinks you rival her Inconstancy.
Then show the Man again, and re-assume
The sprightly Pride of One-and-twenty's Bloom:
With Courage take her in your longing Arms,
And when she's conquer'd, she must yield her Charms.
Long thus in borrow'd Shapes Vertumnus strove
To cheat the fair Pomona into Love;
Yet still he try'd his Fallacies in vain,
She mock'd the Soldier, and she scorn'd the Swain:
But when his proper Form the God confess'd,
Yielding, she clasp'd him to her panting Breast.
To cheat the fair Pomona into Love;
Yet still he try'd his Fallacies in vain,
She mock'd the Soldier, and she scorn'd the Swain:
But when his proper Form the God confess'd,
Yielding, she clasp'd him to her panting Breast.
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