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Figure on her waxen mind Images of life refin'd; Make it, as a garden gay, Every bud of thought display, 20Till, improving year by year, The whole culture shall appear, Voice, and speech, and action, rising, All to human sense surprising. 24Is the silken web so thin As the texture of her skin?Can the lilly and the rose Such unsully'd hue disclose? 28Are the violets so blue As her veins expos'd to view?Do the stars, in wintry sky, Twinkle brighter than her eye? 32Has the morning lark a throat Sounding sweeter than her note?Whoe'er knew the like before thee?They who knew the nymph that bore thee. 36
 From thy pastime and thy toys, From thy harmless cares and joys,

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