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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CELIA SINGING.
When Celia sings, the notes inspireA still attention round the fire:
Their threads no more the Maidens ply,
Before the Swains the spindles lye,
The Mistress' tongue forgets to move,
And happy I no longer love.
Just so, the truth if Poëts tell,
When Orpheus struck his lyre in Hell,
Ixion's wheel was seen to stop,
Ocnus omits to twist his rope,
At large rolls Sisyphus' care,
Their hissing plagues the Furies spare,
And Tityus' heart, charm'd with the lay
The Vultures cease to make their prey.
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