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COL. Ye fhepherds, that v/antoir it over the plain, ::•
How fleeting your trarifport, • how lafting your pain;?
Inconftancy fhun, arid reward the kind fhe, »'
And learn to be happy from /-^Z'j^i^.? and me.
Pfi. Ye nymphs, who the pleafures of fove never try^i^
Attend to my drains, and liet me be' your guide V ■
Your hearts keep 'from pride and inconffancy free,^ - -
And learn to be happy from Colin- and :hl^ ■ ^'^
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'Tis love, like the fun> that gives light to the y€ar»
The fweeteft of bleffings that life can endeaV ;
Our pleafure it brightens, drives forrow away,
Adds joy to the night, and enlivens the day.
TELL me, lovely (hepherd, where '"''' "'^ ' ''^^•
At noon thou ked^i thy fleecy care r
Diredl me to the fweet retreat,
That guards thee from the mid-day heat.
Led by thy flocks I lonely dray,
"Without a guide, and lofe my way.
Where reft at noon thy bleating care ?
Gentle fhepherd, tell me where.
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PJAired of the virgin throng,
■■• Dod thou feek tliy fwain's abode ?
See yon fertile vale, along
The new-worn path the flocks have trod,
Parfiie the prints their feet have made,
And they ihall guide thee to the (hade.
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