Comic Tales and Lyrical Fancies including The Chessiad, a Mock-Heroic, in Five Cantos; and The Wreath of Love, in Four Cantos. By C. Dibdin, the Younger |
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INVITATION.
O, hie thee to these peaceful shades
Where ne'er ambition treads;
Sweet meditation haunts these glades,
Where art no trammel spreads.
Where ne'er ambition treads;
Sweet meditation haunts these glades,
Where art no trammel spreads.
Unscar'd the linnet sits and sings,
Uncull'd the flow'rets blow;
The timid hare her brood here brings,
Where untrac'd streamlets flow.
Uncull'd the flow'rets blow;
The timid hare her brood here brings,
Where untrac'd streamlets flow.
Then, hither to these shades away
To pure affection dear;
What modest tenderness may say
Shall reach no busy ear.
To pure affection dear;
What modest tenderness may say
Shall reach no busy ear.
And I will whisper how I love,
And when you answer me,
With words that shall my fears remove,
Your blushes none will see.
And when you answer me,
With words that shall my fears remove,
Your blushes none will see.
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And while enraptur'd here I sit,
Where wild flow'rs scent the air,
And linnets sing, and gold-birds flit,
And, by me plac'd my fair,
Where wild flow'rs scent the air,
And linnets sing, and gold-birds flit,
And, by me plac'd my fair,
While lilacs solar heat assuage,
And beams o'erpow'ring screen—
O, I shall think it Time's first age
And Paradise the scene.
And beams o'erpow'ring screen—
O, I shall think it Time's first age
And Paradise the scene.
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