ARNO's VALE. A SONG. Charles Sackville 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. T116245 1137 K093079.004 Pearch, G. A collection of poems in four volumes. By several hands. Vol. IV. [The second edition]. London printed for G. Pearch 1770 p. 59. 4v. ; 8⁰.

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ARNO's VALE . A SONG . BY THE DUKE OF DORSET . WHEN here , Lucinda , first we came , Where Arno rolls his silver stream , How brisk the nymphs , the swains how gay , Content inspir'd each rural lay ; The birds in livelier concert sung , The grapes in thicker clusters hung ; All look'd as joy could never fail , Among the sweets of Arno's vale . But since the good Palemon died , The chief of shepherds , and the pride , You read distress in every face , And joy to sorrow now gives place : The taste of pleasure now is o'er , Thy notes , Lucinda , please no more , The Muses droop , and tears prevail , Adieu the sweets of Arno's vale .