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To ETHELINDA.
Dubious of what repeating Fame had told,
The wond'rous Power of Ethelinda's Face!
Too vainly curious, and too rashly bold,
I self-conducted sought the fatal Place.
The wond'rous Power of Ethelinda's Face!
Too vainly curious, and too rashly bold,
I self-conducted sought the fatal Place.
There sudden by th'nchanting Flame inspir'd,
Reason no more her feeble Sway could boast;
So Phaeton, by wild Ambition fir'd,
Possess'd his Wish, and by his Wish was lost.
Reason no more her feeble Sway could boast;
So Phaeton, by wild Ambition fir'd,
Possess'd his Wish, and by his Wish was lost.
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