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ODE II.
[More happy than the Gods is he]
Whatever might have been the Occasion of this Ode, the
English Reader will enter into the Beauties of it, if he
supposes it to have been written in the Person of a Lover sitting by his Mistress.
Addison, Spectator, No. 229.
I
More happy than the Gods is heWho, soft-reclining, sits by thee;
His Ears thy pleasing Talk beguiles,
His Eyes thy sweetly-dimpled Smiles.
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II
This, this, alas! alarm'd my Breast,And robb'd me of my golden Rest:
While gazing on thy Charms I hung,
My Voice died faltering on my Tongue.
III
With subtle Flames my Bosom glows,Quick through each Vein the Poison flows:
Dark, dimming Mists my Eyes surround;
My Ears with hollow Murmurs sound.
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IV
My Limbs with dewy Chillness freeze,On my whole Frame pale Tremblings seize,
And losing Colour, Sense and Breath,
I seem quite languishing in Death.
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