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To the same with a New Watch.

1 WITH me while present, may thy lovely eyes
2 Be never turn'd upon this golden toy:
3 Think ev'ry pleasing hour too swiftly flies,
4 And measure time, by joy succeeding joy.
5 But when the cares that interrupt our bliss
6 To me not always will thy sight allow,
7 Then oft with kind impatience look on this,
8 Then every minute count as I do now.

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Title (in Source Edition): To the same with a New Watch.
Themes: love; objects
Genres: lyric
References: DMI 22332

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Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. II. London: printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763 [1st ed. 1758], p. 64. 6v.: music; 8⁰. (ESTC T131163; OTA K104099.002) (Page images digitized by the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive from a copy in the archive's library.)

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