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Mr. Cooke's Original Poems

with Imitations and Translations of Several Select Passages of the Antients, In Four Parts: To which are added Proposals For perfecting the English Language

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To Lesbia.

You wish, my Life, in the soft Hours of Love,
Our Flame may constant burn, and mutual prove;
Ye Gods, if from her Heart her Wishes came,
Grant it to end but with our vital Flame.