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Another.
[Bless'd be the sweetly shining Eyes]
Bless'd be the sweetly shining Eyes,
Where smiling love with beauty lies,
As innocent, as fair;
Whose matchless charms, untaught by art,
Have freed a long deluded heart
From false Corisca's Snare!
Where smiling love with beauty lies,
As innocent, as fair;
Whose matchless charms, untaught by art,
Have freed a long deluded heart
From false Corisca's Snare!
Preserv'd from Her, to fall by You,
With pleasure I my fate pursue,
With pride embrace my chain:
Should you your faithful slave deny,
He may lament, despair, and die;
But never can complain.
With pleasure I my fate pursue,
With pride embrace my chain:
Should you your faithful slave deny,
He may lament, despair, and die;
But never can complain.
So fares the Wolf's intended Prey,
The trembling Lamb, when snatch'd away
From mean, ignoble death;
And, doom'd to bleed at Beauty's shrine,
An Off'ring to the Pow'r divine,
Resigns his willing breath.
The trembling Lamb, when snatch'd away
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And, doom'd to bleed at Beauty's shrine,
An Off'ring to the Pow'r divine,
Resigns his willing breath.
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