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TO Miss K--- P---, WITH ANSON's VOYAGE.
Raptur'd Traveller, cease the tales
Of Tinian's lawns, Fernandes' vales;
Of isles, concentering Nature's charms,
Lapt in peaceful Ocean's arms;
Of that Hesperian world, which lies
Beneath the smile of southern skies,
Where Zephyr waves unflagging wings,
Where Albion's summers, Latian springs
Join thy autumns, smiling France,
And lead along th'eternal dance!
Of Tinian's lawns, Fernandes' vales;
Of isles, concentering Nature's charms,
Lapt in peaceful Ocean's arms;
Of that Hesperian world, which lies
Beneath the smile of southern skies,
Where Zephyr waves unflagging wings,
Where Albion's summers, Latian springs
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And lead along th'eternal dance!
These enchanting scenes, and all
That wake to form at Fancy's call,
And all the sportive pencil traces,
Are feeble types of living graces.
Of moral charms, that mental throne
Unclouded Beauty calls her own.
Where all the Sun's meridian blaze
Is twilight gloom to Virtue's rays.
There with richer blended sweets
Wedded Spring her Autumn meets;
There Fernandes' brighter shore,
There a purer Chili's ore,
Fruits and flowers are there combin'd
In fairer Tinian—Kitty's mind.
That wake to form at Fancy's call,
And all the sportive pencil traces,
Are feeble types of living graces.
Of moral charms, that mental throne
Unclouded Beauty calls her own.
Where all the Sun's meridian blaze
Is twilight gloom to Virtue's rays.
There with richer blended sweets
Wedded Spring her Autumn meets;
There Fernandes' brighter shore,
There a purer Chili's ore,
Fruits and flowers are there combin'd
In fairer Tinian—Kitty's mind.
| Poems on several occasions | |