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 |
On the Death of Amyntas.
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On the Death of Amyntas.
I
Amyntas is no more!Ye Virtues, wail the Youth;
For Modesty and Truth
Must never hope to meet
With such an heavenly seat:
Then ever thus deplore
Amyntas now no more.
II
Amyntas is no more!The Swain, ye Virgins, mourn
Ah never to return!
The pleasures of the Fair
Were still Amyntas' care:
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Amyntas now no more.
III
Amyntas is no more!Lament your loss, ye Youths;
No more Amyntas smooths
With converse sweet the road
Of life, now hardly trod:
Then ever thus deplore
Amyntas now no more.
IV
Amyntas is no more!My friend, my best good friend!
Still let me mourn his end,
The Youths thus ever call,
The Virgins, Virtues all,
Thus ever to deplore
Amyntas now no more.
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