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SONG.

1 AS o'er Asteria's fields I rove,
2 The blissful seat of peace and love,
3 Ten thousand beauties round me rise,
4 And mingle pleasure with surprize.
5 By nature blest in every part,
6 Adorn'd with every grace of art,
7 This paradise of blooming joys
8 Each raptur'd sense, at once, employs.
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9 But when I view the radiant queen,
10 Who form'd this fair enchanting scene;
11 Pardon ye grots! ye crystal floods!
12 Ye breathing flow'rs! ye shady woods!
13 Your coolness now no more invites;
14 No more your murmuring stream delights;
15 Your sweets decay, your verdure's flown;
16 My soul's intent on her alone.

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Title (in Source Edition): SONG.
Themes: joyfulness; happiness; nature
Genres: song
References: DMI 26662

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Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. IV. London: printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763 [1st ed. 1758], pp. 295-296. 6v.: music; 8⁰. (ESTC T131163; OTA K104099.004) (Page images digitized by the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive from a copy in the archive's library.)

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