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ON PHÆBE.
At Phæbe's Birth, with ev'ry graceful AirConfederate Heav'n adorn'd the lovely Fair;
Indulgent Pallas silver'd o'er her Tongue,
To speak with Eloquence, and die in Song,
Majestick Juno gave the awfull Mien,
Softness came melting from the Cyprian Queen:
Is there no God, who can exert his Art,
To make her Kind, and mollifie her Heart?
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Make her but kind, and render her less fair.
But hold—the Gods denie this last Request,
Lest Venus should be vanquish'd in the Test.
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