TO MYRA. THE SURRENDER. Now fly, Difcretion, to my aid, See haughty Myra, fair and bright, In all the pomp of love array'd; Mankind does proftrate fall. Love, a destroyer fierce and young, Commands in chief: well fortify'd he lies, Reason, Love's old inveterate foe, A wife commander he, for council fit, My very bofom-friends make war Within my breast, and in her interefts are ; Efteem and Judgment with strong Fancy join, My darling favourite, Inclination too, My weakness from the conqueror's pride? Prefuming longer to refift, Difcretion must difclaim, Folly and Madnefs only would perfift 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. TQ TO MYR A. LOVING AT FIRST SIGHT. I. No warning of th' approaching flame, Swiftly like fudden death it came, Like travellers by lightning kill'd, II. In whom so 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, Polish'd the form that ftung his heart. то. MYR A. I WHEN wilt thou break, my stubborn heart? O Death, how flow to take my part! Whatever I pursue, 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, My love, the deeper root it takes. VI. Despair VI. Defpair, that aconite does prove, O! for what crime is my torn heart In endless pain, and never die. 1 IN PRAISE OF MYR A. I. TUNE, UNE, tune thy lyre; begin, my Muse; What nymph, what queen, what goddess wilt thou Whofe praises fing? what charmer's name Strike, ftrike thy ftrings; let Echo take the found, Pindus again shall hear, again rejoice, And Hamus too, as when th' enchanting voice Taught oaks to dance, and made the cedars move. II. Nor Venus, nor Diana, will we name, Myra is Venus and Diana too ; All that was feign'd of them, apply'd to her, is true : As |