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PASTORALS.
GERON.Here end your pleasing strife. Both victors are; And both with Colin may, in rhyme, compare.A boxen hautboy, loud, and sweet of sound, All varnish'd, and with brazen ringlets bound, 128 To each I give. A mizzling mist descends Adown that steepy rock: and this way tends Yon distant rain. Shoreward the vessels strive; And, see, the boys their flocks to shelter drive. 132

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