A Miscellany of Poems consisting of Original Poems, Translations, Pastorals in the Cumberland Dialect, Familiar Epistles, Fables, Songs, and Epigrams, by the late Reverend Josiah Relph ... With a Preface and a Glossary |
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While other Nymphs make hapless SwainsTheir victuals pensive hate;
Peggy those little tricks disdains,
And happier Strephon's fate;
Such relish to the rural meals
Her touch and look impart;
A keenness every stomach feels;
A transport every heart.
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II
Peggy the sweetly sugar'd creamCan sugar sweet a-new;
The snowy curds from Peggy seem
To get a snowier hue:
Help'd by her hand th' enlivening cakes
A double life convey;
And from her breath the butter takes
A---what no tongue can say.
III
From charms, ye Gods, when Peggy churns,The gathering sweets secure;
Still be the print her board adorns
From all errata pure:
Then Peggy's praise and Strephon's bliss
Shall my soft voice employ
In notes that like her print or kiss
Shall please, yet never cloy.
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