The Works of Soame Jenyns ... In Four Volumes. Including Several Pieces Never Before Published. To Which are Prefixed, Short Sketches of the History of the Author's Family, and also of his Life; By Charles Nalson Cole |
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A SONG. |
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A SONG.
Cease, Sally, thy charms to expand,
All thy arts and thy witchcraft forbear,
Hide those eyes, hide that neck and that hand,
And those sweet flowing tresses of hair.
All thy arts and thy witchcraft forbear,
Hide those eyes, hide that neck and that hand,
And those sweet flowing tresses of hair.
Oh! torture me not, for Love's sake,
With the smirk of those delicate lips,
With that head's dear significant shake,
And the toss of the hoop and the hips.
With the smirk of those delicate lips,
With that head's dear significant shake,
And the toss of the hoop and the hips.
Oh! sight still more fatal! look there
O'er her tucker what murderers peep!
So—now there's an end of my care,
I shall never more eat, drink, or sleep.
O'er her tucker what murderers peep!
So—now there's an end of my care,
I shall never more eat, drink, or sleep.
D'you sing too? ah mischievous thought!
Touch me, touch me not there any more;
Who the devil can 'scape being caught
In a trap that's thus baited all o'er?
Touch me, touch me not there any more;
Who the devil can 'scape being caught
In a trap that's thus baited all o'er?
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But why to advise shou'd I try?
What nature ordains we must prove;
You no more can help charming, than I
Can help being charm'd, and in love.
What nature ordains we must prove;
You no more can help charming, than I
Can help being charm'd, and in love.
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