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To a LADY,
Playing with a SNAKE.
I.
It is a pleasing, direful Sight!
At once you charm us, and affright!
So Heav'n destroying Angels arms
With Terror, dreadful in their Charms!
It is a pleasing, direful Sight!
At once you charm us, and affright!
So Heav'n destroying Angels arms
With Terror, dreadful in their Charms!
II.
Such, such was Cleopatra's Air,
Lovely, but formidably fair,
When the griev'd World impoverish'd lost
By the dire Asp, its noblest Boast.
Such, such was Cleopatra's Air,
Lovely, but formidably fair,
When the griev'd World impoverish'd lost
By the dire Asp, its noblest Boast.
III.
