SONNET. TO DELIA. John Scott 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. 129. 4v. ; 8⁰.

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SONNET . TO DELIA . BY THE SAME . THRICE has the year its varied circuit run , And chearful , Delia , have the moments flown , Since with my love for thee , my care begun To form thy tender mind to virtue prone : The flatteries of my sex I bade thee shun , I bade thee shun the follies of thy own ; Fictitious manners by example won , Alike to truth and innocence unknown : Say , blooming Maiden , in whose gentle breast Reigns simple Nature undisguis'd by Art , Now amply try'd by time's unerring test , How just the dictates of this faithful heart , That with the joys thy favouring smiles impart , Deems all its cares repair'd , itself supremely blest .