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hopes of blifs r«_fide Where E~van singles with the Clyde.
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And fhe, in fimple beauty dreft. What fecret charm to mem ry brings,
Whofe image lives within my breaft; All that on Evans border fprings,
Who trembling heard my parting figh, Sweet banks lye bloom by Marys fide;
And long purfued me with her eye; Bleft ftreami fhe viewe thee hafte f .oCl;tl<
Does fhe with,heart unchang'd as mine,
Oft in the vocal bowers recline ? Can all the wealth of India's coaft
Or where yon grot o'erhangs the tide, Alone for years in abfence loft?
Mufe while the Evan feeks the Clyde? Return, ye moments of delight,
With richer trdafures blefs my fight!
Ye lofty banks that Evan bound! Swift from this defart let me part,
Ye lavifh woods that wave around, And fly to meet a kindred heart!
And o'er the ftream. your fhadows throw, Nor more mty aught my fteps divide
Which fweetly winds fo far below; From *hat dorr ftream which flows to C?J<
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