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Several Occasions.
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Mark! how this Marygold conceals
Her Beauty, and her Bosom veils,
How from the dull Embrace she flies
Of Phœbus, when his Beams arise;
But when his Glory he displays,
And darts around his fiercer Rays,
Her Charms she opens, and receives
The vigorous God into her Leaves.

Endpiece from 'Poems on Several Occasions' by William Broome (1739, 2nd edition)
Endpiece from 'Poems on Several Occasions' by William Broome (1739, 2nd edition)

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