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The frighted maid, in dread furprise,
With fault'ring footsteps flew,
And turning back her sparkling eyes,
"From whence," fhe cry'd, 66 are you?"

The youth with extacy addrefs'd
The unexperienc'd maid:

"Return, return, thou heav'n-born guest,
"Nor be of aught afraid.

"Let no vain doubts thy thoughts moleft,
"Thou more than mortal fair;
"Be lull'd thy mind to tranquil reft,
"And banish'd every care.

"Behold thy fuppliant lover faint
"Entreats thee not to fly;

"Oh, deign to hear his tender plaint, "Or bid him inftant die.

"But Nature never form'd that frame
"On purpose to destroy;
"Then let me from thy pity claim
"A diftant hope of joy."

In am'rous ftrains he told, with fighs,
The flame his bofom felt,

And pearly tears bedew'd his eyes,
The lovely maid to melt.

With elegance his language flow'd,

In pleafing accents drefs'd,

And while her face with blushes glow'd,

Her willing hand he prefs'd.

Her half-averted cheek he kifs'd,

And vow'd his love fincere; Nor could her feeling heart refift The tribute of a tear.

Awhile her wav'ring mind's refolv'd;

Awhile fhe doubts again;

Now thinks how well Alexis lov'd,
Then deems his loving vain.

At length fhe bids a laft farewel
To fwains and rural life,
Forfakes her peaceful, humble cell,
And is Alonzo's wife.

In fcenes of joy her time fhe spends,
With mirth her hours glide,

And chearful gaiety attends

This more than happy bride.

Her days 'midt foft delights fhe paft,
In pleasure's my flic round,
Each night more happy than the last,

With fresh enjoyments crown'd.

But foon the fickle youth was cloy'd

With even Aura's charms;

He saw, admr'd, and enjoy'd,
Then fated-left her arms.

Say, who can paint the various pains
Which Aura's bofom rent,
Or who recount her piteous ftrains,
And not her fate lament?

'Twas now fhe found her native cot Could more content bestow,

Than those in an exalted lot,

Amidft their greatness, know.

'Twas now she thought on those bleft days, Devoid of guilt or fear,

When the her faithful fhepherd's lays
With rapture us❜d to hear.

"Alas! forfaken as thou art,"

The hapleffe mourner cry'd, "Juftly thy bofom feels the smart "Of coquetry and pride.

"Ah, why did flatt'ry's fyren voice

"So foon en chant my ear?

"Or why was glitt'ring flate my choice,

"Befet with thorns of care?

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"Have not the gods above "Efpous'd thy caufe with rigid fway, "And punifh'd faithlefs love?

66 But ceafe, my heart, upbraiding's vain, "Nor fill with tears my eye, "No more with fruitlefs words complain, "But teach me how to die.

"And if departed fouls attend
"The actions of mankind,

Ah, may I be the guardian friend
"Of him I leave behind!

"Oh, may I ever whisper peace "To dear Alexis' mind,

"And may he foon his joys increase

"With one more just and kind!"

THE TRAGEDY OF PHILLIS.

MYNTAS on a fummer's day,

A To fhun Apollo's beames,

Was driving of his flockes away,

'To taft fome cooling ftreames; And through a forreft as he went Unto a riuer fide,

A voyce which from a groue was fent
Inuited him to bide.

The voyce well feem'd for to bewray
Some male-contented minde:
For oft times did he heare it fay,

Ten thousand times vnkind:
The remnant of that raging mone

Did all escape his eare,

For euery word brought forth a grone,

And euery grone a teare.

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