Love in the Spring.
[I]
Pleasure, Beauty, Youth attend ye;
Love and Melting thoughts befriend ye:
While the spring of Nature lasteth
Use your time ere Winter hasteth.
II
Active blood and free delight,
Place and Privacy invite:
O be kind as you are fair,
Lose no advantage got for Air.
III
She is cruel that denies it,
Stealth of sport in love supplies it:
Bounty best appears in granting,
Else the Ears of Love are wanting.
IV
There's the sweet Exchange of Bliss
Where each Whisper proves a Kiss:
In the Gain are felt no pains,
For still in all the Loser gains.
