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, of SONGS. i<5o
All mortals prize thy beauties bright ;
In thee the pow'rs above delight.
Gay Cupid, with the Graces bland,
When lightly bounding hand in hand ;
With nimble feet he beats the ground,
Shows his bright locks with rofes crown'd.
Here then the flow'ry garland biing 5
With numbers rweet I'll wake the fixing,
And crown'd with rofes, heav'nly flow'rs,
Admitted, Bacchus, to thy bow'rs,
With fnowy-bofom'd Sappho gay,
I'll dance the feather'd hours away.
Recitative.
THE faithlefs Thefeus fcarce had got on bbard,
When Ariadne wak'd, and mifs'd her lord ;
Sudden fhe rofe, and to the beach me flew,
And law his veffel leffening to her view :
She fmote her breaft, fhe rav'd, and tore her hair>
Then in fbft plaints fhe vented her defpair.
A 1 R.
Ah! Thefeus, Thefeus, flay;
Ceafe, ye winds, to blow ;
Kind Neptune, ceafe to flow ;
• Nor waft my love away :
Ah ! whither wilt thou go ?
Could I ferve thee fb ?
Ah, Thefeus ! tell me why you fly
From her. who gave you power to fly ?