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Beauty.
Howe'er confess'd O Queen of Love Thy pow'r
It acts precarious to the coming Hour
And as with certain wings Old Saturn flies
It blossoms flourishes decays and Dies.
It acts precarious to the coming Hour
And as with certain wings Old Saturn flies
It blossoms flourishes decays and Dies.
Pursu'd by time the pow'r of beauty flies
Arises flourishes Decays and dies.
Arises flourishes Decays and dies.
In its midd Empire darts precarious rays
By distance bounded and confin'd to place.
By distance bounded and confin'd to place.
Tho joyful Health and blooming Youth combine
To lay the Gift on Cythereas shrine
Far as the Nymph can look, she only reigns,
The Youth must see her Charms, to feel her Chains.
To lay the Gift on Cythereas shrine
Far as the Nymph can look, she only reigns,
The Youth must see her Charms, to feel her Chains.
Sickness can spoil and absence can remove
The fond Ideas that arise from Love.
The fond Ideas that arise from Love.
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Whilst yet it flourishes with fullest grace
Tis bound by distance and confin'd to place
Tho joyful health and blooming Youth combine
To bring the sacred flame to Cupids Shrine.
Tis bound by distance and confin'd to place
Tho joyful health and blooming Youth combine
To bring the sacred flame to Cupids Shrine.
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