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As yet a stranger to the gentle fires	A
That Amathusia's smiling Queen inspires	B
Not seldom I derided Cupid's darts	C
And scorn'd his claim to rule all human hearts	C
Go child I said transfix the tim'rous dove	D
An easy conquest suits an infant Love	D
Enslave the sparrow for such prize shall be	E
Sufficient triumph to a Chief like thee	E
Why aim thy idle arms at human kind	F
Thy shafts prevail not 'gainst the noble mind	F
The Cyprian heard and kindling into ire	G
None kindles sooner burn'd with double fire	H
It was the Spring and newly risen day	I
Peep'd o'er the hamlets on the First of May	I
My eyes too tender for the blaze of light	J
Still sought the shelter of retiring night	J
When Love approach'd in painted plumes arrayed	K
Th'insidious god his rattling darts betray'd	K
Nor less his infant features and the sly	L
Sweet intimations of his threat'ning eye	L
Such the Sigeian boy is seen above	D
Filling the goblet for imperial Jove	D
Such he on whom the nymphs bestow'd their charms	M
Hylas who perish'd in a Naiad's arms	M
Angry he seem'd yet graceful in his ire	G
And added threats not destitute of fire	H
My power he said by others pain alone	N
'Twere best to learn now learn it by thy own	N
With those who feel my power that pow'r attest	O
And in thy anguish be my sway confest	O
I vanquish'd Phoebus though returning vain	P
From his new triumph o'er the Python slain	P
And when he thinks on Daphne even He	E
Will yield the prize of archery to me	E
A dart less true the Parthian horseman sped	O
Behind him kill'd and conquer'd as he fled	O
Less true th'expert Cydonian and less true	Q
The youth whose shaft his latent Procris slew	Q
Vanquish'd by me see huge Orion bend	O
By me Alcides and Alcides's friend	O
At me should Jove himself a bolt design	R
His bosom first should bleed transfix'd by mine	R
But all thy doubts this shaft will best explain	P
Nor shall it teach thee with a trivial pain	P
Thy Muse vain youth shall not thy peace ensure	S
Nor Phoebus' serpent yield thy wound a cure	S
He spoke and waving a bright shaft in air	T
Sought the warm bosom of the Cyprian fair	T
That thus a child should bluster in my ear	U
Provok'd my laughter more than mov'd my fear	V
I shun'd not therefore public haunts but stray'd	O
Careless in city or suburban shade	O
And passing and repassing nymphs that mov'd	O
With grace divine beheld where'er I rov'd	O
Bright shone the vernal day with double blaze	W
As beauty gave new force to Phoebus' rays	W
By no grave scruples check'd I freely eyed	O
The dang'rous show rash youth my only guide	O
And many a look of many a Fair unknown	N
Met full unable to control my own	N
But one I mark'd then peace forsook my breast	O
One Oh how far superior to the rest	O
What lovely features Such the Cyprian Queen	X
Herself might wish and Juno wish her mien	X
The very nymph was she whom when I dar'd	O
His arrows Love had even then prepar'd	O
Nor was himself remote nor unsupplied	O
With torch well trimm'd and quiver at his side	O
Now to her lips he clung her eye lids now	Y
Then settled on her cheeks or on her brow	Y
And with a thousand wounds from ev'ry part	O
Pierced and transpierced my undefended heart	O
A fever new to me of fierce desire	H
Now seiz'd my soul and I was all on fire	H
But she the while whom only I adore	Z
Was gone and vanish'd to appear no more	Z
In silent sadness I pursue my way	I
I pause I turn proceed yet wish to stay	I
And while I follow her in thought bemoan	N
With tears my soul's delight so quickly flown	N
When Jove had hurl'd him to the Lemnian coast	O
So Vulcan sorrow'd for Olympus lost	O
And so Oeclides sinking into night	O
From the deep gulph look'd up to distant light	O
Wretch that I am what hopes for me remain	P
Who cannot cease to love yet love in vain	P
Oh could I once once more behold the Fair	T
Speak to her tell her of the pangs I bear	T
Perhaps she is not adamant would show	A2
Perhaps some pity at my tale of woe	A2
Oh inauspicious flame 'tis mine to prove	D
A matchless instance of disastrous love	D
Ah spare me gentle Pow'r If such thou be	E
Let not thy deeds and nature disagree	E
Now I revere thy fires thy bow thy darts	C
Now own thee sov'reign of all human hearts	C
Spare me and I will worship at no shrine	R
With vow and sacrifice save only thine	R
Remove no grant me still this raging woe	A2
Sweet is the wretchedness that lovers know	A2
But pierce hereafter should I chance to see	E
One destined mine at once both her and me	E
	B2
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Such were the trophies that in earlier days	W
By vanity seduced I toil'd to raise	W
Studious yet indolent and urg'd by youth	C2
That worst of teachers from the ways of Truth	C2
Till learning taught me in his shady bow'r	D2
To quit love's servile yoke and spurn his pow'r	D2
Then on a sudden the fierce flame supprest	O
A frost continual settled on my breast	O
Whence Cupid fears his flames extinct to see	E
And Venus dreads a Diomede in me	E

William Cowper

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