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COLLECTION

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POEMS

IN SIX VOLUME S.

BY

SEVERAL HAND S.

LONDON: Printed by J. HUGHS,

For J. DODSLEY, in PALL-MALL.

M DCC LXV.

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THE

PROGRESS of LOVE.

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Four E CLOGUE S.

UNCERTAINTY. ECLOGUE I.

POPER

To Mr. POPE.

to whose reed beneath the beechen shade, The Nymphs of Thames a pleas'd attention paid; While yet thy Mufe, content with humbler praise, Warbled in Windfor's grove her fylvan lays;

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Though now fublimely borne on Homer's wing,
Of glorious wars, and godlike chiefs fhe fing:
Wilt thou with me re-vifit once again

The crystal fountain, and the flow'ry plain?
Wilt thou, indulgent, hear my verfe relate
The various changes of a lover's state;
And while each turn of paffion I pursue,
Afk thy own heart if what I tell be true?

To the green margin of a lonely wood,

Whose pendent shades o'erlook'd a filver flood, Young Damon came, unknowing where he stray'd,

Full of the image of his beauteous maid:

His flock far off, unfed, untended lay,

To every favage a defenceless prey;

No fenfe of int'reft could their mafter move,

And every care seem'd trifling now but Love.
Awhile in penfive filence he remain'd,

But tho' his voice was mute, his looks complain'd;
At length the thoughts within his bofom pent,
Forc'd his unwilling tongue to give them vent.

Ye Nymphs, he cry'd, ye Dryads, who fo long Have favour'd Damon, and infpir'd his fong; For whom, retir'd, I shun the gay reforts Of sportful cities, and of pompous courts;

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