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"Live unseen!"

By moon-light shades in valleys green,
Lovely flower, we'll live unseen:
Of our pleasure deem not lightly,
Laughing day may look more sprightly,
But I love the modest mien,

Still I love the modest mien

Of gentle evening fair; and her star-train❜d queen.

Did'st thou, shepherd, never find
Pleasure is of pensive kind?
Has thy cottage never known
That she loves to live alone?
Dost thou not at evening hour
Feel some soft and secret pow'r,
Gliding o'er thy yielding mind,
Leave sweet serenity behind:
While all disarm'd, the cares of day
Steal through the falling gloom away?
Love to think thy lot was laid

In this undistinguish'd' shade.

Far from the world's infections view
Thy little virtues safely blew;

Go, and in day's more dang'rous hour,
Guard thy emblematic flower.

FOR

THE MONUMENT

YE

OF

ROSE:

A FAVOURITE SPANIEL.

By the Earl of Carlisle.

E fairy sprites, who oft by dusky eve,

When no rude noise disturbs this peaceful grove, O'er cowslips' heads your airy dances weave, Or with your females whisper tales of love.

A favourite's urn protect with ev'ry spell,
That by the conscious moon ye here prepare:
Nor in the breast the heaving sigh repel,

Nor in the redden'd eye the starting tear.

For ye have seen her at the rise of day,

Fair as the blushing flower, whose name she bore; Try the thick copse, or in the valleys play, Neglect her not, though all her beauty's o'er.

Lest should some heifer from the neighbouring mead, Or playful colt her little tomb profane;

Lest on that breast the turf too hard they tread, Which ne'er knew sorrow, nor e'er tasted pain.

For this may no rude peasants, ere the dawn, With noisy rattling of their loaded teams; Drive you with mirth unfinish'd off the lawn, Or in the vale disturb your pleasing dreams.

THE END.

J. Swan, Printer, 76, Fleet Street.

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PRINTED FOR B. CROSBY AND CO. STATIONERS' COURT, PATERNOSTER ROW, BY J. SWAN, 76, FLEET STREET.

1804.

1. Fables, English.

PUBLIC LIBRARY 153853

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1899.

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