The Works of the Late Aaron Hill ... In Four Volumes. Consisting of Letters on Various Subjects, And of Original Poems, Moral and Facetious. With An Essay on the Art of Acting |
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Pallas's Whisper,
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Pallas's Whisper,
in a Dream, to two Beauties, at Eltham.
Expell'd th' assembly! 'twas discreetly done!Could the torch shine, but where it miss'd the sun?
Wisely, the old and ugly, shun compare,
Nor prune their with'ring barks, against the fair!
You gone, they glean a cold respect, undue,
But drop their plunder'd sheaves, at sight of you.
So, the shock'd Indian, conscious of his face,
Broke the bright glass, to hide his own disgrace.
Smile, un-revengeful, leave their pride forlorn,
And mix some pity, with the public scorn.
'Twere hard, to clip the starver's stinted shares,
No—let the balm of envy still be theirs.
Leave 'em the needful pow'r, to hate their bane,
And shun those eyes, by which they wish, in vain.
Nature indulg'd a self-defence to all;
For that, she gave the dry'd old maid, her gall;
For that, long vipers wind their hiss along,
And, but for that, th' assembly mourns your wrong.
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