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PASTORALS.
"Unhappy Colinet! what boots thee now,
"To weave fresh girlonds for thy Stella's brow?
"No girlond ever more may Stella wear,
"Nor see the flowery season of the year, 112
"Nor dance nor sing, nor ever sweetly smile,
"And every toil of Colinet beguile.
"To weave fresh girlonds for thy Stella's brow?
"No girlond ever more may Stella wear,
"Nor see the flowery season of the year, 112
"Nor dance nor sing, nor ever sweetly smile,
"And every toil of Colinet beguile.
Awake, my pipe; in every note express
Fair Stella's death, and Colinet's distress. 116
Fair Stella's death, and Colinet's distress. 116
"Throw by the lilly, daffadil, and rose;
"Wreaths of black yew, and willow pale, compose,
"With baneful hemlock, deadly nightshade, dress'd,
"Such chaplets as may witness chine unrest, 120
"If aught can witness: O, ye shepherds tell,
"When I am dead, no shepherd lov'd so well!
"Wreaths of black yew, and willow pale, compose,
"With baneful hemlock, deadly nightshade, dress'd,
"Such chaplets as may witness chine unrest, 120
"If aught can witness: O, ye shepherds tell,
"When I am dead, no shepherd lov'd so well!
Awake, my pipe; in every note express
Fair Stella's death, and Colinet's distress. 124
Fair Stella's death, and Colinet's distress. 124
"Alack, my sheep! and thou, dear spotless lamb,
"By Stella nurs'd, who wean'd thee from the dam,
"What heed give I to aught but to my grief,
"My whole employment, and my whole relief! 128
"By Stella nurs'd, who wean'd thee from the dam,
"What heed give I to aught but to my grief,
"My whole employment, and my whole relief! 128
"Stray
