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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THE SNOW-BALL.
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THE SNOW-BALL.
FROM PETRONIUS AFRANIUS.
White as her hand fair Julia threw
A ball of silver snow;
The frozen globe fir'd as it flew,
My bosom felt it glow.
A ball of silver snow;
The frozen globe fir'd as it flew,
My bosom felt it glow.
Strange pow'r of love! whose great command
Can thus a snow-ball arm;
When sent, fair Julia, from thine hand,
Ev'n ice itself can warm.
Can thus a snow-ball arm;
When sent, fair Julia, from thine hand,
Ev'n ice itself can warm.
How should we then secure our hearts?
Love's pow'r we all must feel,
Who thus can, by strange magic arts,
In ice his flames conceal.
Love's pow'r we all must feel,
Who thus can, by strange magic arts,
In ice his flames conceal.
'Tis thou alone, fair Julia, know,
Canst quench my fierce desire,
But not with water, ice, or snow,
But with an equal fire.
Canst quench my fierce desire,
But not with water, ice, or snow,
But with an equal fire.
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