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That great Maria all those joys may know,

Which, from her cares, upon her subjects flow.
VIII.

For thy own glory fing our fovereign's praise,
God of verfes and of days:

Let all thy tuneful fons adorn

Their lafting work with William's name ; Let chofen Muses yet unborn

Take

great Maria for their future theme:
Eternal structures let them raise,
On William's and Maria's praife :
Nor want new fubject for the fong,

Nor fear they can exhaust the store,
Till nature's musick lies unftrung;

Till thou, great god, fhalt lofe thy double power,, And touch thy lyre, and shoot thy beams no more.

The LADY'S LOOKING-GLASS.
In Imitation of a Greek Idyllium,

CELIA and I the other day

Walk'd o'er the fand-hills to the fea :

The fetting fun adorn'd the coast,
His beams intire, his fiercenefs loft:
And, on the furface of the deep,
The winds lay only not asleep:
The nymph did like the scene appear,
Serenely pleasant, calmly fair:
Soft fell her words, as flew the air.

With fecret joy I heard her fay,

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That she would never mifs one day

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A walk fo fine, a fight so gay.

But, oh the change! the winds grow high;
Impending tempefts charge the sky;

The lightning flies, the thunder roars ;
And big waves lafh the frighten'd fhores.
Struck with the horror of the fight,
She turns her head, and wings her flight:
And trembling vows, she'll ne'er again
Approach the fhore, or view the main.

Once more at least look back, faid I,
Thyself in that large glass descry:
When thou art in good-humour dreft;
When gentle reason rules thy breast;
The fun upon the calmeft fea
Appears not half so bright as thee:
'Tis then that with delight I rove
Upon the boundless depth of love :
I blefs my chain; I hand my oar;
Nor think on all I left on fhore.

But when vain doubt and groundless fear
Do that dear foolish bofom tear;
When the big lip and watery eye
Tell me, the rifing ftorm is nigh;
'Tis then, thou art yon' angry main,
Deform'd by winds, and dash'd by rain ;
And the poor failor, that must try
Its fury, labours lefs than I.

Ship

Shipwreck'd, in vain to land I make,

While Love and Fate ftill drive me back :
Forc'd to doat on thee thy own way,

I chide thee firft, and then obey.

Wretched when from thee, vex'd when nigh,
I with thee, or without thee, die.

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WHILE from the fkies the ruddy fun defcends,

And rifing night the evening fhade extends;
While pearly dews o'erfpread the fruitful field,
And clofing flowers reviving odours yield :
Let us, beneath these spreading trees, recite
What from our hearts our Mufes may indite.
Nor need we, in this close retirement, fear,
Left any fwain our amorous fecrets hear.
SYLVIA

To every fhepherd I would mine proclaim;
Since fair Aminta is my fofteft theme:

A ftranger to the loofe delights of love,

My thoughts the nobler warmth of friendship prove : And, while its pure and facred fire I fing,

Chafte goddess of the groves, thy fuccour bring.

AMARYLLIS.

AMARYLLIS.

Propitious god of love, my breast inspire

With all thy charms, with all thy pleafing fire;
Propitious god of love, thy fuccour bring,
Whilft I thy darling, thy Alexis fing;
Alexis, as the opening bloffoms fair,
Lovely as light, and foft as yielding air.
For him each virgin fighs; and on the plains
The happy youth above each rival reigns.
Nor to the echoing groves, and whispering spring,
In fweeter ftrains does artful Conon fing;
When loud applauses fill the crouded groves,
And Phoebus the fuperior fong approves.

SYLVIA.

Beauteous Aminta is as early light,
Breaking the melancholy fhades of night.
When she is near, all anxious trouble flies,
And our reviving hearts confess her eyes.
Young love, and blooming joy, and gay defires,
In every breast the beauteous nymph inspires;
And on the plain when the no more appears,
The plain a dark and gloomy prospect wears.
In vain the streams roll on: the eastern breeze
Dances in vain among the trembling trees:
In vain the birds begin their evening song,
And to the filent night their notes prolong :
Nor groves, nor crystal streams, nor verdant field,
Does wonted pleasure in her absence yield.

VOL. I.

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AMA

AMARYLLIS.

And, in his abfence, all the penfive day
In fome obfcure retreat I lonely ftray;
All day to the repeating caves complain,
In mournful accents, and a dying strain;
Dear lovely youth, I cry to all around;
Dear lovely youth, the flattering vales resound.
SYLVIA.

On flowery banks, by every murmuring stream,
Aminta is my Mufe's fofteft theme:

'Tis fhe that does my artful notes refine :

With fair Aminta's name my nobleft verfe shall shine. AMARYLLIS.

F'll twine fresh garlands for Alexis' brows, And confecrate to him eternal vows:

The charming youth fhall my Apollo prove ;

He shall adorn my fongs, and tune my voice to love.

To the AUTHOR of the foregoing PASTORAL.

BY Sylvia if thy charming felf be meant;

If Friendship be thy virgin vows extent;
Oh! let me in Aminta's praises join :
Her's my esteem shall be, my passion thine.
When for thy head the garland I prepare,
A fecond wreath fhall bind Aminta's hair;
And, when my choicest songs thy worth proclaim,
Alternate verse shall blefs Aminta's name;

My heart shall own the justice of her cause,
And Love himself submit to Friendship's laws.

But,

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