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Poems on Several Occasions

With some Select Essays in Prose. In Two Volumes. By John Hughes; Adorn'd with Sculptures

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Recitative.

FIRST VOICE.
To young Victoria's happy Fame,
Well may the Arts a Trophy raise,
Musick grows sweeter in her Praise,
And, own'd by Her, with Rapture speaks her Name.
To touch the brave Cleander's Heart,
The Graces all in Her conspire,

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Love arms her with his surest Dart,
Apollo with his Lyre.

AIR.

The list'ning Muses all around her,
Think 'tis Phœbus' Strains they hear:
And Cupid, drawing near to wound her,
Drops his Bow, and stands to hear.