On the Same. Catherine Rebecca Grey, Lady Manners 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. T173070 Manners, Catherine Rebecca, Lady, 1766 or 1767-1852. Poems by Lady Manners. Second edition. London John Bell 1793 p. [120]. 126p.

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On the Same . LITTLE idol of my heart , Thou to me canst joys impart Greater than the glittering prize To Ambition's eager eyes : Greater than the summer rose To the airy bee bestows : Greater than the youth's despair To the haughty fair one's ear ; Greater than the fair one's smile , Skill'd her lovers to beguile , To the enamour'd youth can give , Should she bid him love and live . Soon the beauty shall decay , Soon the rose shall fade away , Soon the lover's flame is o'er , Power obtain'd soon charms no more : But nor Time , nor Fortune's change , Can my love from thee estrange — That , on firmer motives plac'd , Shall with my existence last .