Book I. Ode XVIII. Invitation to his Mistress. Sir James Marriott 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. T131163 K104099.004 Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. IV. London printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley 1763 [1st ed. 1758] pp. 278-279. 6v.: music; 8⁰.

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Book I. Ode XVIII . Invitation to his Mistress . OFT Faunus leaves Arcadia's plain , And to the Sabine hill retreats : He guards my flocks from rushing rain , From piercing winds , and scorching heats . Where lurks the thyme , or shrubs appear , My wanton kids securely play ; My goats no pois'nous serpent fear , Safe wand'ring thro' the woodland way . No hostile wolf the fold invades ; Ustica's pendent rocks rebound My song ; and all the sylvan shades , By Echo taught , return the sound . The gods my verse propitious hear , My head from every danger shield : For you , o'erflows the bounteous year , And Plenty's horn hath heap'd my field . Responsive to the Teian string , Within the sun-defended vale , Here , softly warbling you shall sing Each tender , tuneful , am'rous tale . No rival , here , shall burst the bands That wreathe my charmer's beauteous hair , Nor seize her weakly struggling hands ; But Love and Horace guard the fair .