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Sed neque Medorum silvae ditissima terra	A
Nec pulcher Ganges atque auro turbidus Haemus	B
Laudibus Angligenum certent non Bactra nec Indi	C
Totaque thuriferis Panchaia pinguis arenis	B
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Imitation	D
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Yet let not Median woods abundant track	E
Nor Ganges fair nor Haemus miser like	F
Proud of his hoarded gold presume to vie	G
With Britain's boast and praise nor Persian Bactra	A
Nor India's coasts nor all Panchaia's sands	B
Rich and exulting in their lofty towers	B
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Let the green olive glad Hesperian shores	B
Her tawny citron and her orange groves	B
These let Iberia boast but if in vain	H
To win the stranger plant's diffusive smile	I
The Briton labours yet our native minds	B
Our constant bosoms these the dazzled world	C
May view with envy these Iberian dames	B
Survey with fix'd esteem and fond desire	A
Hapless Elvira thy disastrous fate	C
May well this truth explain nor ill adorn	J
The British lyre then chiefly if the Muse	B
Nor vain nor partial from the simple guise	B
Of ancient record catch the pensive lay	K
And in less grovelling accents give to Fame	L
Elvira loveliest maid the Iberian realm	M
Could boast no purer breast no sprightlier mind	C
No race more splendent and no form so fair	A
Such was the chance of war this peerless maid	C
In life's luxuriant bloom enrich'd the spoil	N
Of British victors victory's noblest pride	C
She she alone amid the wailful train	H
Of captive maids assign'd to Henry's care	A
Lord of her life her fortune and her fame	L
He generous youth with no penurious hand	C
The tedious moments that unjoyous roll	O
Where Freedom's cheerful radiance shines no more	A
Essay'd to soften conscious of the pang	P
That Beauty feels to waste its fleeting hours	B
In some dim fort by foreign rule restrain'd	C
Far from the haunts of men or eye of day	K
Sometimes to cheat her bosom of its cares	B
Her kind protector number'd o'er the toils	B
Himself had worn the frowns of angry seas	B
Or hostile rage or faithless friend more fell	Q
Than storm or foe if haply she might find	C
Her cares diminish'd fruitless fond essay	K
Now to her lovely hand with modest awe	R
The tender lute he gave she not averse	B
Nor destitute of skill with willing hand	C
Call'd forth angelic strains the sacred debt	C
Of gratitude she said whose just commands	B
Still might her hand with equal pride obey	K
Nor to the melting sounds the nymph refused	C
Her vocal art harmonious as the strain	H
Of some imprison'd lark who daily cheer'd	C
By guardian cares repays them with a song	S
Nor droops nor deems sweet liberty resign'd	C
The song not artless had she framed to paint	C
Disastrous passion how by tyrant laws	B
Of idiot custom sway'd some soft eyed fair	A
Loved only one nor dared that love reveal	T
How the soft anguish banish'd from her cheek	U
The damask rose full blown a fever came	L
And from her bosom forced the plaintive tale	V
Then swift as light he sought the love lorn maid	C
But vainly sought her torn by swifter fate	C
To join the tenants of the myrtle shade	C
Love's mournful victims on the plains below	W
Sometimes as Fancy spoke the pleasing task	X
She taught her artful needle to display	K
The various pride of spring then swift upsprung	X
Thickets of myrtle eglantine and rose	B
There might you see on gentle toils intent	C
A train of busy Loves some pluck the flower	A
Some twine the garland some with grave grimace	B
Around a vacant warrior cast the wreath	Y
'Twas paint 'twas life and sure to piercing eyes	B
The warrior's face depictured Henry's mien	Z
Now had the generous chief with joy perused	C
The royal scroll which to their native home	A2
Their ancient rights uninjured unredeem'd	C
Restored the captives Forth with rapid haste	C
To glad his fair Elvira's ear he sprung	X
Fired by the bliss he panted to convey	K
But fired in vain Ah what was his amaze	B
His fond distress when o'er her pallid face	B
Dejection reign'd and from her lifeless hand	C
Down dropt the myrtle's fair unfinish'd flower	A
Speechless she stood at length with accents faint	C
'Well may my native shore ' she said 'resound	C
Thy monarch's praise and here Elvira prove	B2
Of thine forgetful flowers shall cease to feel	T
The fostering breeze and Nature change her laws '	-
And now the grateful edict wide alarm'd	C
The British host Around the smiling youths	B
Call'd to their native scenes with willing haste	C
Their fleet unmoor impatient of the love	C2
That weds each bosom to its native soil	N
The patriot passion strong in every clime	A2
How justly theirs who find no foreign sweets	B
To dissipate their loves or match their own	D2
Not so Elvira she disastrous maid	C
Was doubly captive power nor chance could loose	B
The subtle bands she loved her generous foe	W
She where her Henry dwelt her Henry smiled	C
Could term her native shore her native shore	A
By him deserted some unfriendly strand	C
Strange bleak forlorn a desert waste and wild	C
The fleet careen'd the wind propitious fill'd	C
The swelling sails the glittering transports waved	C
Their pennants gay and halcyons' azure wing	X
With flight auspicious skimm'd the placid main	H
On her lone couch in tears Elvira lay	K
And chid the officious wind the tempting sea	B
And wish'd a storm as merciless as tore	A
Her labouring bosom Fondly now she strove	E2
To banish passion now the vassal days	B
The captive moments that so smoothly past	C
By many an art recall'd now from her lute	C
With trembling fingers call'd the favourite sounds	B
Which Henry deign'd to praise and now essay'd	C
With mimic chains of silken fillets wove	E2
To paint her captive state if any fraud	C
Might to her love the pleasing scenes prolong	X
And with the dear idea feast the soul	O
But now the chief return'd prepared to launch	F2
On Ocean's willing breast and bid adieu	C
To his fair prisoner She soon as she heard	C
His hated errand now no more conceal'd	C
The raging flame but with a spreading blush	G2
And rising sigh the latent pang disclosed	C
'Yes generous youth I see thy bosom glow	W
With virtuous transport that the task is thine	H2
To solve my chains and to my weeping friends	B
And every longing relative restore	A
A soft eyed maid a mild offenceless prey	K
But know my Soldier never youthful mind	C
Torn from the lavish joys of wild expense	B
By him he loathed and in a dungeon bound	C
To languish out his bloom could match the pains	B
This ill starr'd freedom gives my tortured mind	C
'What call I freedom is it that these limbs	B
From rigid bolts secure may wander far	A
From him I love Alas ere I may boast	C
That sacred blessing some superior power	A
To mortal kings to sublunary thrones	B
Must loose my passion must unchain my soul	O
Even that I loathe all liberty I loathe	I2
But most the joyless privilege to gaze	B
With cold indifference where desert is love	C2
'True I was born an alien to those eyes	B
I ask alone to please my fortune's crime	A2
And ah this flatter'd form by dress endear'd	C
To Spanish eyes by dress may thine offend	C
Whilst I ill fated maid ordain'd to strive	J2
With custom's load beneath its weight expire	A
'Yet Henry's beauties knew in foreign garb	K2
To vanquish me his form howe'er disguised	C
To me were fatal no fantastic robe	L2
That e'er Caprice invented Custom wore	A
Or Folly smiled on could eclipse thy charms	B
'Perhaps by birth decreed by Fortune placed	C
Thy country's foe Elvira's warmest plea	B
Seems but the subtler accent fraud inspires	B
My tenderest glances but the specious flowers	B
That shade the viper while she plots her wound	C
And can the trembling candidate of love	C2
Awake thy fears and can a female breast	C
By ties of grateful duty bound ensnare	A
Is there no brighter mien no softer smile	I
For love to wear to dark Deceit unknown	D2
Heaven search my soul and if through all its cells	B
Lurk the pernicious drop of poisonous guile	I
Full on my fenceless head its viall'd wrath	M2
May Fate exhaust and for my happiest hour	A
Exalt the vengeance I prepare for thee	B
'Ah me nor Henry's no	W

William Shenstone

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