WITH eagerness he drinks the treach'rous potion,
Nor stops to rest, by the first taste misled;
Sweet is the draught, but soon all power of motion
...
WAKEN not Amor from sleep! The beauteous urchin still slumbers;
...
IF I, dearest Lily, did not love thee,
How this prospect would enchant my sight!
And yet if I, Lily, did not love thee,
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My maiden she proved false to me;
To hate all joys I soon began,
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THIS nosegay,--'twas I dress'd it,--
Greets thee a thousand times!
Oft stoop'd I, and caress'd it,
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CHRIST is arisen!
Mortal, all hail!
Thou, of Earth's prison
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Sir Wit, who is so much esteem'd,
And who is worthy of all honour,
Saw Beauty his superior deem'd
By folks who loved to gaze upon her;
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ONCE a stranger youth to Corinth came,
Who in Athens lived, but hoped that he
From a certain townsman there might claim,
As his father's friend, kind courtesy.
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HE who knows himself and others
Here will also see,
That the East and West, like brothers,
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