SONG. Eliza Day Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T132359 Daye, Eliza, b. ca. 1734. Poems, on Various Subjects. Liverpool Printed by J. M'Creery 1798 pp. [44]-45. [2],x,[4],258p.; 8°

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SONG . SINCE Colin appear'd on our plains , Our village is happy and gay ; His presence enlivens the year , And winter is pleasing as May . Tho' he lives the delight of the fair , No envy their bosoms alarms ; His good-nature so flatters them all , Each maid thinks him won by her charms . But I , tho' so friendless and poor , He says am the choice of his heart ; And sure I shall trust in a swain , Who never descended to art . I speak of the belles of the town , I tell him how handsome they be ; But merit the shepherd admires , And he fancies he finds it in me . How much then to Colin I owe , Each action of life shall impart ; While it speaks in the glance of my eye , It shall live in the wish of my heart . I'll rise with the break of the dawn , And neat shall our cottage be seen , In Summer , how fragrant and gay , In Winter , so warm and so clean .