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(101) Page 97 - Celia in a jessamine bower

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(101) Page 97 - Celia in a jessamine bower
To wreck the wandYing lover
And leave the maid to weep.
All melancholy lying,
Thus waiPd fhe tor her dear
Repay'd each Wall with figbing,
Each billow with a tear ;
When o'er the white waves {looping
His floating corpfe fhe fpy'd ; .
Then, like a lily drooping,
She bow'd her head, and dy'd.
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Celia in a Jejfamine boiven
*^*JJEN trie bright god of day
Drove weM! ward his ray,
$.nd the evening was charming and clear 3
The fwallows amain
Nimbly fkim o'er the plain $
And our fhadows like giants appear.
In a jeffamine bower,
When the bean was in flower,
And zephyrs breathed odours around?
Lov'd Celia %e fat
With her fong and fpinet,
And (he charm'd all the grove with her foun&
Roiy bowers fhe fung,
Whilft the harmony rung,
And the birds they all fluttering arrive, »
The induftrious bees,
om the flowers and the trees,
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