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With flowing rapture bright, dark looks succeed,
Suffused and glaring with untender fire; fer
A clouded aspect, and a burning cheek,

Where the whole poison'd soul, malignant, sits, ent
And frightens love away. Ten thousand fears
Invented wild, ten thousand frantic views
Of horrid rivals, hanging on the charms
For which he melts in fondness, eat him up
With fervent anguish and consuming rage.
In vain reproaches lend their idle aid,
Deceitful pride, and resolution frail,
Giving false peace a moment. Fancy pours
Afresh her beauties on his busy thought,
Her first endearments twining round the soul,
With all the witchcraft of ensnaring love.

Straight the fierce storm involves his mind anew,
Flames through the nerves, and boils along the veins;
While anxious doubt distracts the tortured heart:
For e'en the sad assurance of his fears

Were ease to what he feels. Thus the warm youth,
Whom love deludes into his thorny wilds,
Through flowery tempting paths, or leads a life
Of fever'd rapture, or of cruel care;

His brightest aims extinguish'd all, and all
His lively moments running down to waste.
But happy they! the happiest of their kind!
Whom gentler stars unite, and in one fate

Their hearts, their fortunes, and their beings blend.”“”'Tis not the coarser tie of human lawsyod deofory set Unnatural oft and foreign to the mind,

That binds their peace, but harmony itself, al Attuning all their passions into love; SETJA SET

Where friendship full exerts her softest power, s for

Perfect esteem enliven'd by desired
Ineffable, and sympathy of soul;

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Thought meeting thought, and will preventing will, i
With boundless confidence: for nought but love
Can answer love, and render bliss secure. dusar o'l
Let him, ungenerous, who, alone intent to OⱭ 5 F
To bless himself, from sordid parents buys
The loathing virgin, in eternal care

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Well merited, consume his nights and days:
Let barbarous nations, whose inhuman love any
Is wild desire, fierce as the suns they feel;
Let eastern tyrants from the light of Heaven seƒ
Seclude their bosom slaves, meanly possess'd go dif
Of a mere lifeless, violated form: 151 Chismerde
While those whom love cements in holy faith, 9-1
And equal transport, free as Nature live,verorl
Disdaining fear. What is the world to them, 979.71
Its pomp, its pleasure, and its nonsense all! unit bak
Who in each other clasp whatever fair esa
High fancy forms, and lavish hearts can wish; -
Something than beauty dearer, should they look,-1+de
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The richest bounty of indulgent Heavens offt ton aiT
Meantime a smiling offspring rises round, in J
And mingles both their graces. By degrees
The human blossom blows; and every day,

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The father's lustre, and the mother's bloom. tjáðmel
Then infant reason grows apace, and calls
For the kind hand of an assiduous care.
Delightful task to rear the tender thought,
To teach the young idea how to shoot,

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Το the fresh instruction o'er the mind,
To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix
The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Oh, speak the joy! ye, whom the sudden tear
Surprises often, while you look around,
And nothing strikes your eye but sights of bliss,
All various Nature pressing on the heart:
An elegant sufficiency, content,

Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books,
Ease and alternate labour, useful life,
Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven!
These are the matchless joys of virtuous love;
And thus their moments fly. The Seasons thus,
As ceaseless round a jarring world they roll,
Still find them happy; and consenting SPRING
Sheds her own rosy garland on their heads:
Till evening comes at last, serene and mild;

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When after the long vernal day of life, Enamour'd more, as more remembrance swells With many a proof of recollected love, Together down they sink in social sleep; Together freed, their gentle spirits fly

To scenes where love and bliss immortal reign.

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she with the sylvan pen

Of rural lovers this confefsion carv'd,

Which soon her Damon kifs'd with weeping joy

SUMMER.

DRAWN BY RICHARD WESTALLRA ENGRAVED BY CHARLES ROLLS; PUBLISHED BY JOHN SHARPE, LONDON.

JAN.1,1825.

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