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Such Sweets breath'd round! and thus we know
Our other Venus here below.
Our other Venus here below.
But see! my Fairest, see this Flow'r,
This short-liv'd Beauty of an Hour!———
Such are thy Charms!———yet Zephyrs bring
The Flow'r to bloom again in Spring:
But Beauty, when it once declines,
No more to warm the Lover shines:
Alas! incessant speeds the Day,
When thou shalt be but common Clay!
When I, who now adore, may see,
And ev'n with horrour, start from Thee!
This short-liv'd Beauty of an Hour!———
Such are thy Charms!———yet Zephyrs bring
The Flow'r to bloom again in Spring:
But Beauty, when it once declines,
No more to warm the Lover shines:
Alas! incessant speeds the Day,
When thou shalt be but common Clay!
When I, who now adore, may see,
And ev'n with horrour, start from Thee!
But e'er, sweet Gift, thy Grace consumes,
Show thou my Fair-one how she blooms!
Put forth thy Charms:—and then declare
Thy self less sweet, thy self less fair!
Show thou my Fair-one how she blooms!
Put forth thy Charms:—and then declare
Thy self less sweet, thy self less fair!
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