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PALEMON & LAVINIA.

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London. Published Sept 1st 1992. by A. Hamilton, near Gray's Inn Gate.

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Now sun-burnt reapers seek the corn-clad field,
And ripen'd fruits delicious flavour yield.

CROWN'D with the sickle and the wheaten sheaf,

While AUTUMN, nodding o'er the yellow plain, Comes jovial on; the Doric reed once more, Well pleas'd, I tune. Whate'er the Wintry frost

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Nitrous prepar'd; the various-blossom'd Spring 5
Put in white promise forth; and Summer-suns
Concocted strong, rush boundless now to view;
Full, perfect all, and swell my glorious theme.
ONSLOW! the Muse, ambitious of thy name,
To grace, inspire, and dignify her song,
Would from the Public Voice thy gentle ear
A while engage. Thy noble cares she knows,
The patriot virtues that distend thy thought,
Spread on thy front, and in thy bosom glow,
While listening senates hang upon thy tongue;
Devolving thro' the maze of eloquence
A roll of periods, sweeter than her song.

But she too pants for public virtue; she,

Tho' weak of power, yet strong in ardent will,
Whene'er her country rushes on her heart,

Assumes a bolder note; and fondly tries

To mix the patriot's with the poet's flame.

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WHEN the bright Virgin gives the beauteous days,

And Libra weighs in equal scales the year;

From heaven's high cope the fierce effulgence shook

Of parting Summer, a serener blue,

With golden light enliven'd, wide invests

The happy world. Attemper'd suns arise,

Sweet-beam'd, and shedding oft thro' lucid clouds

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A pleafing calm; while broad, and brown, below 30 Extensive harvests hang the heavy head.

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