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PASTORALS.
DAMON.Then sing by turns, by turns the Muses sing,Now hawthorns blossom, now the daisies spring,Now leaves the trees, and flow'rs adorn the ground;Begin, the vales shall echo to the sound.
STREPHON.Inspire me, Phœbus, in my Delia's praiseWith Waller's strains, or Granville's moving lays!A milk-white bull shall at your altars stand,That threats a fight, and spurns the rising sand.
DAPHNIS.O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize,And make my tongue victorious as her eyes;No lambs or sheep for victims I'll impart,Thy victim, Love, shall be the shepherds heart.
STREPHON.Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain,Then hid in shades, eludes her eager swain;But feigns a laugh, to see me search around,And by that laugh the willing fair is found.

DAPHNIS.

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