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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In Imitation of Horace. B. 4. Ode 10. |
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In Imitation of Horace. B. 4. Ode 10.
O Think my too, too cruel fair,
Old age those beauties will impair;
A few, short-pleasing triumphs past,
Themselves shall fall a prey at last.
That cheek, where fairest red and white,
The lilly and the rose unite;
That cheek it's every charm shall lose,
Like a brown leaf at autumn's close.
Then shall the glass thy change betray,
Then shalt thou fetch a sigh and say,
Why came not these kind thoughts before,
Or why return my charms no more.
Old age those beauties will impair;
A few, short-pleasing triumphs past,
Themselves shall fall a prey at last.
That cheek, where fairest red and white,
The lilly and the rose unite;
That cheek it's every charm shall lose,
Like a brown leaf at autumn's close.
Then shall the glass thy change betray,
Then shalt thou fetch a sigh and say,
Why came not these kind thoughts before,
Or why return my charms no more.
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