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Ode XXXIII. To Albius Tibullus.
No more in elegiac Strain
Of cruel Glycera complain,
Though she resign her faithless Charms
To a new Lover's younger Arms.
The Maid, for lovely Forehead fam'd,
With Cyrus' Beauties is enflam'd;
While Pholoë, of haughty Charms,
The panting Breast of Cyrus warms;
But Wolves and Goats shall sooner prove
The Pleasures of forbidden Love,
Than she her Virgin Honour stain,
And not the filthy Rake disdain.
Of cruel Glycera complain,
Though she resign her faithless Charms
To a new Lover's younger Arms.
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With Cyrus' Beauties is enflam'd;
While Pholoë, of haughty Charms,
The panting Breast of Cyrus warms;
But Wolves and Goats shall sooner prove
The Pleasures of forbidden Love,
Than she her Virgin Honour stain,
And not the filthy Rake disdain.
So Venus wills, whose Power controuls
The fond Affections of our Souls;
With sportive Cruelty she binds
Unequal Forms, unequal Minds.
Thus, when a better Mistress strove
To warm my youthful Breast to Love,
Yet could a Slave-born Maid detain
My willing Heart in pleasing Chain,
Though fiercer She, than Waves that roar
Winding the rough Calabrian Shore.
The fond Affections of our Souls;
With sportive Cruelty she binds
Unequal Forms, unequal Minds.
Thus, when a better Mistress strove
To warm my youthful Breast to Love,
Yet could a Slave-born Maid detain
My willing Heart in pleasing Chain,
Though fiercer She, than Waves that roar
Winding the rough Calabrian Shore.
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