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SPRING.

THE

FIRST PASTORAL.

TO

Sir WILLIAM TRUMBAL.

First in these fields I try the sylvan strains, Nor blush to sport on Windsor's blissful plains: Fair Thames flow gently from thy sacred spring, While on thy banks Sicilian Muses sing; Let vernal airs thro' trembling osiers play, And Albion's cliffs resound the rural lay.

You,

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