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Bepearling ev'ry lawn,;

Wild warbling wood-notes float around,
While echo doubles ev'ry found,
To hail the gladfome dawn.

IV.

Now Celia with thy Cloe rife,
Ye fair unlock those radiant eyes,
Nor more the pillow prefs;
Now rife and tafte of vernal blifs,
Romantic dreams and fleep difmifs,
New joys your fenfe fhall blefs.

V.

Whether along the velvet green,
Adorning all the sylvan scene,

The fair incline to ftray;

Where lofty trees o'erfhade the wave,
And Zephyrs leave their fecret cave,
Along the streams to play.

VI.

There lovely views the * river crown,
Woods, meadows, fhips, yon + fpiry town,
Where wit and beauty reign;

Where Cloe and fair Celia's charms,

Fill many a youth with love's alarms,
Sweet pleasure, mix'd with pain.

* Delaware.

+ Philadelphia.

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Immur'd in darkfome fhade;

Around whose fides | magnolias' bloom,
Whose filver bloffoms deck the gloom,
And scent the spicy glade.

VIII.

These are Aurora's rural fweets

Fresh dew-drops, flowers and green retreats,
Perfume the balmy air ;

Rife then and greet the new-born day,
Rife, fair ones, join the linnet's lay,

And Nature's pleasures share.

So fhall gay

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With blushes fweeter than the morn,

And fresh as early day;

And then, that Glo'fter is the place,
To add to beauty's brightest grace,

The world around shall say.

The chalybeate fpring near Gloucefter.
The laurel-leaved tulip tree.

This beautiful tree is one of

the greatest ornaments of the American woods, of which it is a

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TIME! ftill urging to eternity,

In thy deep womb the world's vaft actions

lie

Thy hours still whirl us on in full career,
Day following day, and year fucceeding year;
Old moments ending as the new ones rise-
For thy first child, Succeffion, never dies;
But all things human own thy fov'reign pow'r,
Juft live and die- a thousand in an hour.

Kings, empires, thrones and nations fade away, And others ftill fucceed as they decay;

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Fair peace

and horrid war ftill rule by turns,
With love and rage the world, alternate, burns;
And thus the fame rotation fhall be seen,
Till confummation fhuts this earthly scene!

What then avails t' invoke the facred Nine, Or humbly bend us at the Muse's shrine, When we, together with our loftiest rhime, Shrink to oblivion, at one blaft of Time?

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And icy fetters bound each filver rill

Old Night her raven mantle cast around,
And Spectres rofe from confecrated ground;

The

The full orb'd moon a pallid lustre shed,

And o'er each scene a livelier horror spread.

'Twas then afide the frozen Delaware,

(To the bleak north, her bofom, heaving, bare) Revolving various troubles in her mind,

Fair Pennsylvania's genius fad reclin'd,

Her olive crown, fcarce cleans'd from reeking gore,
She dafh'd, indignant, on the flinty fhöre;
Then, forrowful, fhe turn'd her briny eyes
To where her Capital's proud turrets rife.

Thus, as she rested on a bank of fnow, Breathing deep fighs, and loft in fpeechless woe; Sudden, a folemn murmur fill'd the air,

And rous'd the Goddess from her trance of care.

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