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Ye blooming youth possest of every grace	A
Which can delight the eye or please the ear	B
Who boast a polish'd mind and faultless face	A
Awhile the councils of Philemon hear	B
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Let not pride lift the thoughtless head too high	C
Temerity arch o'er the scornful brow	D
Contemptuous glances arm the sparkling eye	C
Or the high heart with self complacence glow	E
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Alas full soon the eve of life arrives	F
Though pale Disease's train approach not nigh	C
Short is the summer of the happiest lives	G
If no rude storm disturbs the smiling sky	C
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This wretched body bending to the earth	H
Once on the wings of health alert and gay	I
Shone forth the foremost in the train of mirth	H
And cloudless skies announc'd a beauteous day	I
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My parents oft with fond complacence view'd	J
The elegance of my external form	K
And thought my mind with excellence endued	J
Bright as my genius as my fancy warm	K
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There was a time poor as I now appear	L
I admiration met in every look	M
And harsh as now my words may grate your ear	B
Each tongue was silent when Philemon spoke	N
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Once could this voice make every bosom thrill	O
As it pour'd forth the light or plaintive lay	I
And once these fingers with superior skill	O
Upon the lute could eloquently play	I
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By partial friendship sooth'd by flattery fann'd	P
I learnt with conscious grace the dance to lead	Q
To guide the Phaeton with careless hand	P
And rule with flowing rein the prancing steed	R
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Sick with the glory of a trifler's fame	S
By folly nurtur'd I was proud and vain	T
Till Chastisement in kindest mercy came	S
Though then her just decrees I dar'd arraign	T
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The form that sought so late the public view	U
That glow'd with transport as the world admir'd	V
Fill'd with false shame from every eye withdrew	U
And to the shades of solitude retir'd	W
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Consum'd by fevers spiritless forlorn	X
Blasted by apoplexy's dreadful rage	Y
My bleeding heart by keen remembrance torn	X
I past my prime in premature old age	Y
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I heard my parent's ill suppressed sighs	Z
And wish'd myself upon the peaceful bier	B
I saw the anguish of their sleepless eyes	Z
The smile dissembled and the secret tear	A2
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Oft with a kind of gratifying woe	E
I recollected every former charm	B2
And with the spleen of a malicious foe	E
Delighted still to keep my sorrows warm	K
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Where is the lustre of the gladsome eye	C
The airy smile the animated mien	C2
The rounding lip of liveliest crimson dye	C
So lately envied now no longer seen	C2
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I too have gloried in my waving hair	A2
No ringlets now remain to raise my pride	D2
Nor can I now lay the white forehead bare	A2
And push the too luxuriant locks aside	D2
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Thus like a child I sigh'd for pleasures past	E2
And lost my hours in a delusive dream	F2
But Reason op'd my blinded eyes at last	E2
And clear'd each mist by her refulgent beam	F2
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I saw futurity before me spread	Q
A scourge or sceptre offer'd to my view	U
Alarm'd from Folly's erring mazes fled	Q
And to my God with humble rev'rence drew	U
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I bow'd submissive at the holy shrine	G2
His mercy with warm gratitude confest	Q
Which had reveal'd the spark of life divine	G2
That slumber'd in my earth enamoured breast	Q
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Had I as friendship and self love desir'd	Q
Still suck'd delirium at the fane of praise	H2
I might my conscience lull'd and passions fir'd	Q
Have lost my soul in the bewitching blaze	H2
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Dear rising train let not my words offend	Q
Nor the pure dictates of my love despise	Z
To one late like yourselves attention lend	Q
And taught by his experience be wise	Z
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Ah banish from your eye the fiend Disdain	T
Let fair simplicity supply its place	A
Nor longer let conceit the bosom stain	T
The child of weakness follow'd by disgrace	A
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Should time from you each glowing beauty wrest	Q
You will not then those self reproaches feel	I2
Which every eye awaken'd in my breast	Q
And twenty winters scarce suffic'd to heel	I2
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Nor will your friends observe each faded charm	B2
Since still your countenance its smile retains	J2
And the same lov'd companion kind and warm	K
With unassuming manners yet remains	J2

Matilda Betham

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