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PASTORALS.
While the mingling birds prolong, From each bush, the vernal song?
Have ye seen the damask-rose Her unsully'd blush disclose, 20Or the lilly's dewy bell, In her glossy white, excell, Or a garden vary'd o'er With a thousand glories more? 24
By the beauties these display, Morning, evening, night, or day, By the pleasures these excite, Endless sources of delight! 28Judge, by them, the joys I find, Since my Rosalind was kind, Since she did herself resign To my vows, for ever mine. 32
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EPISTLES.
