MYR A. то м WARN'D and made wife by others flame, I fled from whence fuch mifchiefs came, Shunning the fex that kills at fight, But ah! in vain from fate we fly! My heart, that ftood fo long the fhock OOLISH Love, begone, faid I, Vain are thy attempts on me, Thy foft allurements I defy; Love heard, and ftrait prepar'd a dart: ΤΟ то м M YRA. OW THE SURRENDER. Now fly, Difcretion, to my aid, See haughty Myra, fair and bright, In all the pomp of love array'd; Mankind does prostrate fall. Love, a destroyer fierce and young, Commands in chief: well fortify'd he lies, Reason, Love's old inveterate foe, Reafon affifts her too. A wife commander he, for council fit, My very bofom-friends make war Efteem Efteem and Judgment with ftrong Fancy join, To call the fair invader in; My darling favourite, Inclination too, My weakness from the conqueror's pride ? Prefuming longer to refift, Difcretion must disclaim, Folly and Madness only would persist. TO MYR A. G. SON LL tell her the next time, faid I : I'LL In vain! in vain! for when I try, Upon my timorous tongue the trembling accents die. Alas! a thousand thousand fears Still over-awe when the appears, My breath is spent in fighs, my eyes are drown'd in tears. ΤΟ TO MY RA." LOVING AT FIRST SIGHT. I. O warning of th' approaching flame, II. In whom fo many charms are plac'd, III. To what my eyes admir'd before, The fpark that from her beauty came. IV. The object thus improv'd by thought, TO M. Y R A. 1. WHEN wilt thou break, my stubborn heart? O Death, how flow to take my part! Whatever I purfue, denies, Death, Death itself, like Myra flies. II. Love and Defpair, like twins, poffeft III. I thought, alas! that Love could dwell IV. That without hope 'twould die as foon, V. As toughest trees in ftorms are bred, VI. Defpair |