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LONDON.

Printed for Harrifon and

N°18, Paternofter-RSTY

1782.

UNIVERSIT

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AIL, lovely Anna! thou whofe potent charms
Have bound my heart in Friendship's facred bonds,
Join'd with the pureft Love by Reafon fix'd;
Not fuch as oft the youthful changeling feels,

Who builds ideal hopes of future blifs

On the frail bafis of a beauteous form,
Without a mind to raise it from the duft:
Thee, dearest fair.one, fhall my Mufe address,

While in her nobleft ftrains fhe humbly fings-
(Or ftrives to fing)-THE JOYS OF WEDDED LOVE!

-Delightful ftate! when the enraptur'd youth.
Beholds the fair for whom he long has figh'd,
And often fear'd to lofe, by rivals prefs'd,
Now ready to receive his plighted vows,
And feal his future blifs! With joy elate,
He views his glorious prize; and only fears
Too foon to wake, and find it all a dream,
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