Poems on Various Subjects with some Essays in Prose, Letters to Correspondents, &c. and A Treatise on Health. By Samuel Bowden |
THE ANSWER TO THE Lady's Last Letter of August 1749.
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THE ANSWER TO THE Lady's Last Letter of August 1749.
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Chanting far off the woods among,
Invited by the rural lay,
I'd thro' the pathless desart stray,
Where roses wild adorn the green,
And wither in the shade unseen;
And many a pink, and artless flower,
With purple stain the sylvan bower.
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Murmur their love plaints near the sky.
I'd ask each wood-nymph of the shade,
If they had seen the wand'ring maid;
And in what bosky grove or cell,
The solitary fair might dwell.
Or if the drowsy god of sleep,
Has clos'd her eyes in slumber deep;
And with enchantments magic tie,
Seal'd up those lips of harmony.
Pan, with his horn, shou'd break the spell,
And shake the dormitory cell.
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