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But caft into a mold divine,
Fair Delia does with luftre mine,
Her virtuous foul's an ample mine,
Which yields a conftant treafure.
Let poets, in fublimeft lays,
Employ their skill her fame to raife ;
Let fons of mufick pafs whole days,
With well-tun'd reeds to pleafe her.
The Tellow-hair d Laddie.
IN April, when primrofes paint the Aveet plain,
And fummer approaching rejoiceth the fwain ;
The Tellonv-hair^d Laddie would oftentimes go
To wilds and deep glens, where the hawthorn trees grow.
There, under the fhade of an old facred thorn,,
With freedom he fung his loves ev'ning and morn :
Fie fang with fo faft and inchanting a found,
That Silvans and Fairies unfeen danc'd around.
The mepherd thus fung, Tho' young Maya be fair.
Her beauty is dafh'd with a fcornfu' proud air ;
But Sujte was handfome, and fweetly could ling,
Her breath like the breezes perfum'd in the fpring.
That Madie in all the gay bloom of her youth,
Like the moon was unconllant, and never fpoke truth :
But Safe was faithful, good-humour'd, and free,
And fair as the Goddefs who fprung from the fea. f.. -
That mama's fine daughter with all her great dow'r,
Was aukwardly airy, and frequently fowr :
Then, fighing, he wifhed, would parents agree,
The witty fweet Sufie his miilrefs might be.
NJNNl'O.