Poems on Various Subjects with some Essays in Prose, Letters to Correspondents, &c. and A Treatise on Health. By Samuel Bowden |
TO A YOUNG LADY, With a Bird and Cage. |
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TO A YOUNG LADY, With a Bird and Cage.
By the Same.
This little Bird, when you receive,
An emblem of my heart believe.
Like him it wander'd wild and free,
Nor thought to lose its liberty.
The Bird indeed may wish to rove,
And once more flutter in the grove;
But cou'd I find some happy art,
In your fair breast to lodge my heart,
Pleas'd in that prison to remain,
I'd never wish to rove again.
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