The Works of Soame Jenyns ... In Four Volumes. Including Several Pieces Never Before Published. To Which are Prefixed, Short Sketches of the History of the Author's Family, and also of his Life; By Charles Nalson Cole |
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To a YOUNG LADY, GOING TO THE WEST INDIES. |
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To a YOUNG LADY, GOING TO THE WEST INDIES.
For universal sway design'd,
To distant realms Clorinda flies,
And scorns, in one small isle confin'd,
To bound the conquests of her eyes.
To distant realms Clorinda flies,
And scorns, in one small isle confin'd,
To bound the conquests of her eyes.
From our cold climes to India's shore
With cruel haste she wings her way,
To scorch their sultry plains still more,
And rob us of our only day.
With cruel haste she wings her way,
To scorch their sultry plains still more,
And rob us of our only day.
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Whilst ev'ry streaming eye o'erflows
With tender floods of parting tears,
Thy breast, dear cause of all our woes,
Alone unmov'd, and gay appears.
With tender floods of parting tears,
Thy breast, dear cause of all our woes,
Alone unmov'd, and gay appears.
But still, if right the muses tell,
The fated point of time is nigh,
When grief shall that fair bosom swell,
And trickle from thy lovely eye.
The fated point of time is nigh,
When grief shall that fair bosom swell,
And trickle from thy lovely eye.
Tho' now, like Philip's son, whose arms
Did once the vassal world command,
You rove with unresisted charms,
And conquer both by sea and land;
Did once the vassal world command,
You rove with unresisted charms,
And conquer both by sea and land;
Yet when (as soon they must) mankind
Shall all be doom'd to wear your chain,
You too, like him, will weep to find
No more unconquer'd worlds remain.
Shall all be doom'd to wear your chain,
You too, like him, will weep to find
No more unconquer'd worlds remain.
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