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A Poetical Translation of the elegies of Tibullus

and of the poems of Sulpicia. With The Original Text, and Notes Critical and Explanatory. In two volumes. By James Grainger
Granger, James (1723-1776)
  
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What Spells devote you? say, what Philtres bind?
What Mid-night Sorceress fascinates your Mind?
Spells can seduce the Corn from neighbouring Plains!
The head-long Serpent halts at Magic Strains!
And did not Cymbals stop thy prone Career,
A Spell thee Luna from thy Orb would tear!
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