A Miscellany of Poems consisting of Original Poems, Translations, Pastorals in the Cumberland Dialect, Familiar Epistles, Fables, Songs, and Epigrams, by the late Reverend Josiah Relph ... With a Preface and a Glossary |
ADVICE to STREPHON.
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ADVICE to STREPHON.
Pensive Strephon, cease repining,Give thy injured stars their due;
There's no room for all this whining,
Be Dorinda false or true.
If she feeds a faithfull passion,
Canst thou call thy fortune cross?
And if sway'd by whim and fashion,
Let her leave thee—where's the loss?
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