Translations and Poems Written on Several Occasions [by Samuel Boyse] |
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In Fontes Lutetiæ. Epigramma Santeuil.
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In Fontes Lutetiæ. Epigramma Santeuil.
Translated.
Soon as fair Seine the Royal City sees,
She stops her Course, and winds by soft Degrees;
Struck with the wond'rous Beauties she surveys
Along th' Elysian Plain she gently plays,
Thro' the inchanting Town delighted glides;
And gently rolls her Silver-flowing Tides;
Till thence, her Wave a thousand Channels bring,
And the fair River changes to a Spring.
She stops her Course, and winds by soft Degrees;
Struck with the wond'rous Beauties she surveys
Along th' Elysian Plain she gently plays,
Thro' the inchanting Town delighted glides;
And gently rolls her Silver-flowing Tides;
Till thence, her Wave a thousand Channels bring,
And the fair River changes to a Spring.
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Inscriptio Fontis.
Hid lies the Nymph from whom this Bounty flows,So let thy Hand conceal, when it bestows.
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