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SONNET Imitated From SPENCER.
Chloe
's as cold as Ice, all Day,
And I still burn like Fire;
Why don't her Coldness melt away
Before my warm Desire?
And I still burn like Fire;
Why don't her Coldness melt away
Before my warm Desire?
Or why is not my fervent Blaze
Check'd by her chilling Ice;
But I grow hotter, as I gaze,
The Flames much stronger rise.
Check'd by her chilling Ice;
But I grow hotter, as I gaze,
The Flames much stronger rise.
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Strange! that by Fire, which softens all,
More Hardness Ice should take,
And Ice, where-e'er it chance to fall,
A sudden Flame should make.
More Hardness Ice should take,
And Ice, where-e'er it chance to fall,
A sudden Flame should make.
But such is Love's prevailing Force,
In ev'ry gentle Mind;
It alters all whole Nature's Course,
And rules in ev'ry Kind.
In ev'ry gentle Mind;
It alters all whole Nature's Course,
And rules in ev'ry Kind.
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