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Poetical works of the late F. Sayers

to which have been prefixed the connected disquisitions on the rise and progress of English poetry, and on English metres, and also some biographic particulars of the author, supplied by W. Taylor
  

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EPIGRAM.

[Blest is the cup from which my Cynthia sips!]

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(From the Greek.)

Blest is the cup from which my Cynthia sips!
Thrice blest, to press the roses of her lips!
Ah! would she fervent join those lips to mine,
And drink my soul in such a kiss divine.