Several Occasions.
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A deep Repose the weary Wand'rer shares,
And the faint Watchman sleeps away his Cares;
Ev'n the fond Mother, while all breathless lies
Her Child of Love, in Slumber seals her Eyes;
No Sound of Village-Dog, no Noise invades
The death-like Silence of the midnight Shades;
Alone Medea wakes: To Love a Prey,
Restless she rouls, and groans the Night away:
Now the fire-breathing Bulls command her Cares,
She thinks on Jason, and for Jason fears:
In sad Review, on Horrours Horrours rise,
Quick beats her Heart, from Thought to Thought she flies:
As from replenish'd Urns with dubious Ray,
The Sun-beams dancing from the Surface play,
Now here, now there the trembling Radiance falls
Alternate flashing round th' illumin'd Walls;
And the faint Watchman sleeps away his Cares;
Ev'n the fond Mother, while all breathless lies
Her Child of Love, in Slumber seals her Eyes;
No Sound of Village-Dog, no Noise invades
The death-like Silence of the midnight Shades;
Alone Medea wakes: To Love a Prey,
Restless she rouls, and groans the Night away:
Now the fire-breathing Bulls command her Cares,
She thinks on Jason, and for Jason fears:
In sad Review, on Horrours Horrours rise,
Quick beats her Heart, from Thought to Thought she flies:
As from replenish'd Urns with dubious Ray,
The Sun-beams dancing from the Surface play,
Now here, now there the trembling Radiance falls
Alternate flashing round th' illumin'd Walls;
Thus
