Poems by the Late Reverend Dr. Thomas Blacklock Together with an Essay on the Education of the Blind. To Which is Prefixed A New Account of the Life and Writings of the Author |
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Beneath a green shade, a lovely young swain,One ev'ning reclin'd, to discover his pain:
So sad, yet so sweetly, he warbled his woe,
The winds ceas'd to breathe, and the fountains to flow:
Rude winds, with compassion, could hear him complain;
Yet Chloe, less gentle, was deaf to his strain.
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How happy, he cry'd, my moments once flew!Ere Chole's bright charms first flash'd in my view:
These eyes then with pleasure the dawn could survey;
Nor smil'd the fair morning more chearful than they:
Now scenes of distress please only my sight;
I'm tortur'd in pleasure, and languish in light.
III
Through changes in vain relief I pursue;All, all but conspire my griefs to renew:
From sunshine to zephyrs and shades we repair;
To sunshine we fly from too piercing an air:
But love's ardent fever burns always the same;
No winter can cool it, no summer inflame.
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IV
But see! the pale moon all clouded retires;The breezes grow cool, not Strephon's desires:
I fly from the dangers of tempest and wind,
Yet nourish the madness that preys on my mind.
Ah wretch! how can life thus merit thy care,
Since length'ning its moments, but lengthens despair?
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