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Poems on Several Occasions

By Edward, Lord Thurlow. The Second Edition, considerably enlarged

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[When first I saw you, O untold delight!]

When first I saw you, O untold delight!
After long absence, and reluctant woe,
A thousand Angels burst upon my sight,
And all my heart did with soft passion glow:
The Muses then, that to my thoughts were strange,
Return'd to me, with verdant laurel crown'd,
And in the front of that auspicious change,
Myself unto their suit again I bound:
Nor could the Moon her sheeny chariot guide
Up that steep path, that to Olympus leads,
Ere I your beauteous form had signified
In pastoral delights, and shepherds' weeds:
So swift is love, that, in it's true delight,
The Moon it passes, and the journal light!