University of Virginia Library

Search this document 
The poetical and dramatic works of Sir Charles Sedley

Collected and Edited from the Old Editions: With a preface on the text, explanatory and textual notes, an appendix containing works of doubtful authenticity, and a bibliography: By V. de Sola Pinto

expand sectionI. 
expand sectionII. 

CXXX
SONG

[_]

The attribution of this poem is questionable.

I

Unveil, divinely Fair, your Eyes,
And from the downy Bed arise;
Ah! did you Strephon's Love partake,
You would not sleep, but ever wake.

II

Hence, hence, dull God of Sleep, away,
Let my Celinda bless the Day:
Insensibly, you close those Eyes,
At whose each Look, a Shepherd dyes.