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The Poetical Works of Henry Brooke

... In Four Volumes Octavo. Revised and corrected by the Original Manuscript With a Portrait of the Author, and His Life By Miss Brooke. The Third Edition
Brooke, Henry (1703?-1783)

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AIR XVIII.

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Tune, “Delia, by Arne.”

Jack.
O form'd of harmony and light!
Too bright for sense to bear!
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Art thou to feeling as to sight?
Essential as thou'rt fair?

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If some illusion from the skies,
In pity yet delay;
Nor melt, sweet object, from my eyes;
In fleeting air away!
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