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Vi&or he's gen’rous, courts the Pair’s Efteem,
^nd takes a Bafon fill’d with limpid Stream :
Then from his Fingers form’d an artful Rain,
Which rouz’d the dormant Spirits of her Brain,
And made the purple Channels flow again.
She lives, he fings; fhe fmiles, and looks more tame :
Now Peace and Friendfhip is the only Theme.
The MUSE owns freely here, fhe does not know,
If Words did pafs between the Belle and Beau,
Or, if, in Courtflhip, fuch ufe Words or no.
But fore it is, there was a Parley beat.
And mutual Love did end the proud Debate.
Then to complete the Peace and feal the Blifs,
He, for a Diamond Ring, receiv’d a Kifs
Of her foft Hand.-—— Next, the afpiring Youth,
With eager Tranfports, prefs’d her glowing Mouth.
So, by Degrees, the Eagles teach their Young
To mount on high, and flare upon the Sun.
A fumptuotis Treat does crown the ended War,
And all rich Requifites are brought from far.
The Table boafls its being from Japan,
Th’ ingenious W’ork of fome great Artifan.
China, where Potters coarfeft Mould refine.
That Light through the tranfparent Jar does fihine ;
The coflly Plates and Difhes are from thence,
And Amazonia mufl her Sweets difpence;