Poems on Several Occasions In which are included, The Toilette and The Fall. By Joseph Thurston ... The Second Edition |
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Cease, Celia, to accuse your SwainWhere Change and Nature move:
What Slave would drag so dull a chain
As Constancy in Love?
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Repeated pleasure always cloys,And long enjoyments pall;
If Life can boast of any Joys,
Variety is All.
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Examine well a female heart,The truth of this you'll find;
It always will attempt to part
Almost as soon as joyn'd.
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For me, my Temper is too goodA blessing to confine:
I lov'd you long as e'er I cou'd,
And freely now resign.
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