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One Day the Amarous Lisander	B
By an impatient Passion sway'd	C
Surpris'd fair Cloris that lov'd Maid	C
Who cou'd defend her self no longer	B
All things did with his Love conspire	B
The gilded Planet of the Day	D
In his gay Chariot drawn by Fire	B
War now descending to the Sea	E
And left no Light to guide the World	F
But what from Cloris brighter Eves was hurl'd	F
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In alone Thicket made for Love	G
Silent as yielding Maids Consent	H
She with a charming Languishment	H
Permits his force yet gently strove	I
Her Hands his Bosom softly meet	H
But not to put him back design'd	H
Rather to draw him on inclin'd	H
Whilst he lay trembling at her feet	H
Resistance 'tis to late to shew	J
She wants the pow'r to sav Ah what do you do	J
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Her bright Eyes sweat and yet Severe	B
Where Love and Shame confus'dly strive	K
Fresh Vigor to Lisander give	L
And whispring softly in his Ear	B
She Cry'd Cease cease your vain desire	B
Or I'll call out What wou'd you do	J
My dearer Honour ev'n to you	J
I cannot must not give retire	B
Or take that Life whose chiefest part	H
I gave you with the Conquest of my Heart	H
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But he as much unus'd to fear	B
As he was capable of Love	G
The blessed Minutes to improve	M
Kisses her Lips her Neck her Hair	B
Each touch her new Desires alarms	N
His burning trembling Hand he prest	H
Upon her melting Snowy Breast	H
While she lay panting in his Arms	N
All her unguarded Beauties lie	O
The Spoils and Trophies of the Enemy	E
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And now without Respect or Fear	B
He seeks the Objects of his Vows	P
His Love no Modesty allows	P
By swift degrees advancing where	B
His daring Hand that Alter seiz'd	H
Where Gods of Love do Sacrifice	Q
That awful Throne that Paradise	Q
Where Rage is tam'd and Anger pleas'd	H
That Living Fountain from whose Trills	Q
The melted Soul in liquid Drops distils	Q
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Her balmy Lips encountring his	Q
Their Bodies as their Souls are joyn'd	H
Where both in Transports were confin'd	H
Extend themselves upon the Moss	Q
Cloris half dead and breathless lay	D
Her Eyes appear'd like humid Light	H
Such as divides the Day and Night	H
Or falling Stars whose Fires decay	D
And now no signs of Life she shows	Q
But what in short breath sighs returns and goes	Q
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He saw how at her length she lay	D
He saw her rising Bosom bare	B
Her loose thin Robes through which appear	B
A Shape design'd for Love and Play	D
Abandon'd by her Pride and Shame	R
She do's her softest Sweets dispence	Q
Offring her Virgin Innocence	Q
A Victim to Loves Sacred Flame	R
Whilst th' or'e ravish'd Shepherd lies	Q
Unable to perform the Sacrifice	Q
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Ready to taste a Thousand Joys	Q
Thee too transported hapless Swain	S
Found the vast Pleasure turn'd to Pain	S
Pleasure which too much Love destroys	Q
The willing Garments by he laid	H
And Heav'n all open to his view	J
Mad to possess himself he threw	J
On the defenceless lovely Maid	H
But oh what envious Gods conspire	B
To snatch his Pow'r yet leave him the Desire	B
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Natures support without whose Aid	H
She can no humane Being give	L
It self now wants the Art to live	K
Faintness it slacken'd Nerves invade	H
In vain th' enraged Youth assaid	H
To call his fleeting Vigour back	T
No Motion 'twill from Motion take	U
Excess of Love his Love betray'd	H
In vain he Toils in vain Commands	Q
Th' Insensible fell weeping in his Hands	Q
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In this so Am'rous cruel strife	V
Where Love and Fate were too severe	B
The poor Lisander in Despair	B
Renounc'd his Reason with his Life	V
Now all the Brisk and Active Fire	B
That should the Nobler Part inflame	R
Unactive Frigid Dull became	R
And left no Spark for new Desire	B
Not all her Naked Charms cou'd move	M
Or calm that Rage that had debauch'd his Love	G
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Cloris returning from the Trance	Q
Which Love and soft Desire had bred	H
Her tim'rous Hand she gently laid	H
Or guided by Design or Chance	Q
Upon that Fabulous Priapus	Q
That Potent God as Poets feign	S
But never did young Shepherdess	Q
Garth'ring of Fern upon the Plain	S
More nimbly draw her Fingers back	T
Finding beneath the Verdant Leaves a Snake	U
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Then Cloris her fair Hand withdrew	J
Finding that God of her Desires	Q
Disarm'd of all his pow'rful Fires	Q
And cold as Flow'rs bath'd in the Morning dew	J
Who can the Nymphs Confusion guess	Q
The Blood forsook the kinder place	Q
And strew'd with Blushes all her Face	Q
Which both Disdain and Shame express	Q
And from Lisanders Arms she fled	H
Leaving him fainting on the gloomy Bed	H
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Like Lightning through the Grove she hies	Q
Or Daphne from the Delphick God	H
No Print upon the Grassie Road	H
She leaves t' instruct pursuing Eyes	Q
The Wind that wanton'd in her Hair	B
And with her ruffled Garments plaid	H
Discover'd in the flying Maid	H
All that the Gods e're made of Fair	B
So Venus when her Love was Slain	S
With fear and haste flew o're the fatal Plain	S
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The Nymphs resentments none but I	O
Can well imagin and Condole	D
But none can guess Lisander's Soul	D
But those who sway'd his Destiny	E
His silent Griefs swell up to Storms	Q
And not one God his Fury spares	Q
He Curst his Birth his Fate his Stars	Q
But more the Shepherdesses Charms	Q
Whose soft bewitching influence	Q
Had Damn'd him to the Hell of Impotence	Q

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