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To the SAME,
Occasioned by seeing her Ladyship's Picture.
------So absolute she seems,
And in her self compleat.------
Milton.
And in her self compleat.------
Milton.
When happy Paris in th' Idalian Shade
Heav'n's three contending Goddesses survey'd;
And gazing on her Charms with partial Eyes,
To Venus gave immortal Beauty's Prize:
That Moment, had the Attic Maid put on
The Air and Features of her Eglington,
Th' Angelic Mildness of her heav'nly Face,
Her faultless Shape, her ev'ry nameless Grace:
The Queen of Love her baffled Charms had mourn'd,
Greece ne'er had arm'd, nor Troy had ever burn'd;
Nor had the Youth so fatally been blind,
To chuse a Form, regardless of the Mind.
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