The Shamrock or, Hibernian Cresses. A Collection of Poems, Songs, Epigrams, &c. Latin as well as English, The Original Production of Ireland. To which are subjoined thoughts on the prevailing system of school education, respecting young ladies as well as gentlemen: with practical proposals for a reformation [by Samuel Whyte] |
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REBUS IV.
What
Thomas feels, or senseless he,
When Mary, sitting on his Knee,
With Looks of Love his Passion hears;
One Fourth of Virtue's surest Guard,
Through Life's rough Sea the unerring Card
By which her Vessel Wisdom steers:
When Mary, sitting on his Knee,
With Looks of Love his Passion hears;
One Fourth of Virtue's surest Guard,
Through Life's rough Sea the unerring Card
By which her Vessel Wisdom steers:
Take, next, one Half of that sweet Look
Which Marian wears, when o'er the Brook,
She decks her for the rustic Ball,
With what, if right my Grannum sung,
Will leave a Blister on your Tongue:
Then try your Skill, and join them all.
Which Marian wears, when o'er the Brook,
She decks her for the rustic Ball,
With what, if right my Grannum sung,
Will leave a Blister on your Tongue:
Then try your Skill, and join them all.
By Nature's happiest Hand array'd
In sweet Simplicity, the Maid
Rejects each meretricious Art—
O Nesbit, what a Prospect thine!
To whom thy favouring Stars assign
The envy'd Treasure of her Heart.
In sweet Simplicity, the Maid
Rejects each meretricious Art—
O Nesbit, what a Prospect thine!
To whom thy favouring Stars assign
The envy'd Treasure of her Heart.
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