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Rof--lin caftle heard the fwain, And
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e--cho'd back the cheerful ftrain.
Awake, fweet mufe ! the breathing fprhig
With rapture warms; awake and fing!
Awake and join the vocal throng
"Who hail the morning with a ibng !
To Nanny raife the cheerful lay ;
O bid her hade aud come away;
In fweeteft fmiles herfelf adorn,,
And add new graces to the morn.
O hark, my love ! on ev'ry fpray
Each feather'd warbler tunes his lay 1
"'Tis beauty fires the ravifh'd Tong,
And love infpires the melting throng,
Then let miy raptur'd notes arife :
For beauty darts from Nanny's eyes ;
And love my rifing bofom warms,
And fills my foul witli fweet alarms.
O come, my love ! thy Colin's lay
-With rapture calls ; O come away !
Come, while the mufe this wreath (hall twine
.Around that modeft brow of thine!
O hitlier hafle, and with thee hiring
That beauty blooming like the fpring
I'hofe graces that divinely fliine !
x'lnd charm this vavifliVl brcaft of miae.

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