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PASTORAL
POEMS.
The FIRST PASTORAL.
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F we, O Dorset, quit the city throng, To meditate in shades the rural song, By your command, be present: and, O bring The Muse along! The Muse to You shall sing: 4Her influence, Buckhurst, let me there obtain, And I forgive the fam'd Sicilian Swain.
F we, O Dorset, quit the city throng, To meditate in shades the rural song, By your command, be present: and, O bring The Muse along! The Muse to You shall sing: 4Her influence, Buckhurst, let me there obtain, And I forgive the fam'd Sicilian Swain. Begin.———In unluxurious times of yore, When flocks and herds were no inglorious store, 8
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