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SONG to CLOE, playing on her Spinet.

1 WHEN Cloe strikes the trembling Strings,
2 Applauding Cupids round her fly;
3 Exulting clap their little Wings
4 Bask'd in the Sun-shine of her Eye.
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5 The Graces too,
6 As others do,
7 In Raptures stand to hear,
8 Time stays his flagging Wings, and adds,
9 One Hour to the rolling Year:
10 Keep off, ye Beaus,
11 For who but knows
12 That Cloe's Eyes can wound?
13 If those you miss — yet pray avoid
14 The Danger of enchanting Sound.
15 Amphion led the ravish'd Stones
16 (They say) — and as he'd rise or fall,
17 Bricks, Pebbles, Slats, and Marrow-Bones
18 Wou'd form a Steeple or a Wall:
19 But this, you know,
20 Is long ago:
21 We fancy 'tis a Whim:
22 O had they charming Cloe heard,
23 They'd surely not have stir'd for him.
24 The Thracian Bard,
25 Whose Fate was hard,
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26 (And Proserpine severe)
27 Had brought Eurydice back — alas!
28 But Cloe was not there.

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Title (in Source Edition): SONG to CLOE, playing on her Spinet.
Author: Mary Leapor
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Leapor, Mrs. (Mary), 1722-1746. Poems upon several occasions: By Mrs. Leapor of Brackley in Northamptonshire. London: printed: and sold by J. Roberts, 1748, pp. 120-122. 15,[5],282p. ; 8⁰. (ESTC T127827; Foxon p. 413; OTA K101776.000) (Page images digitized from a copy at University of California Libraries.)

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