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The Works of the Right Honourable Sir Chas. Hanbury Williams

... From the Originals in the Possession of His Grandson The Right Hon. The Earl of Essex and Others: With Notes by Horace Walpole ... In Three Volumes, with Portraits

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SONG IN COMUS.

WOULD you taste the noon-tide air,
To yon fragrant bower repair;
Where, woven with the Poplar bough,
The Mantling Vine shall shelter you.
Down each side a Fountain flows,
Tinkling, murmuring, as it goes;
Lightly o'er the mossy ground,
Sultry Phœbus scorching round.
Around, the languid herds and sheep,
Stretch'd on sunny hillocks, sleep;
Whilst on the Hyacinth and Rose,
The fair does all alone repose.
All alone, yet in her arms,
Your breast may beat to Love's alarms;
Where blest and blessing they shall own,
The joys of love are joys alone.