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While blooming Spring descends from genial skies	A
By whose mild influence instant wonders rise	A
From whose soft breath Elysian beauties flow	B
The sweets of Hagley or the pride of Stowe	B
Will Lyttleton the rural landscape range	C
Leave noisy fame and not regret the change	C
Pleased will he tread the garden's early scenes	D
And learn a moral from the rising greens	D
There warm'd alike by Sol's enlivening power	E
The weed aspiring emulates the flower	E
The drooping flower its fairer charms display'd	F
Invites from grateful hands their generous aid	F
Soon if none check'd the invasive foe's designs	G
The lively lustre of these scenes declines	G
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'Tis thus the spring of youth the morn of life	H
Rears in our minds the rival seeds of strife	H
Then passion riots reason then contends	I
And on the conquest every bliss depends	I
Life from the nice decision takes its hue	J
And blest those judges who decide like you	J
On worth like theirs shall every bliss attend	K
The world their favourite and the world their friend	K
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There are who blind to Thought's fatiguing ray	L
As Fortune gives examples urge their way	L
Not Virtue's foes though they her paths decline	M
And scarce her friends though with her friends they join	N
In hers or Vice's casual road advance	O
Thoughtless the sinners or the saints of Chance	O
Yet some more nobly scorn the vulgar voice	P
With judgment fix with zeal pursue their choice	P
When ripen'd thought when Reason born to reign	Q
Checks the wild tumults of the youthful vein	Q
While passion's lawless tides at their command	R
Glide through more useful tracks and bless the land	R
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Happiest of these is he whose matchless mind	S
By learning strengthen'd and by taste refined	S
In Virtue's cause essay'd its earliest powers	T
Chose Virtue's paths and strew'd her paths with flowers	T
The first alarm'd if Freedom waves her wings	U
The fittest to adorn each art she brings	U
Loved by that prince whom every virtue fires	T
Praised by that bard whom every Muse inspires	V
Blest in the tuneful art the social flame	W
In all that wins in all that merits fame	W
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'Twas youth's perplexing stage his doubts inspired	X
When great Alcides to a grove retired	Y
Through the lone windings of a devious glade	F
Resign'd to thought with lingering steps he stray'd	F
Blest with a mind to taste sincerer joys	Z
Arm'd with a heart each false one to despise	A
Dubious he stray'd with wavering thoughts possest	F
Alternate passions struggling shared his breast	F
The various arts which human cares divide	F
In deep attention all his mind employ'd	F
Anxious if Fame an equal bliss secured	F
Or silent Ease with softer charms allured	F
The sylvan choir whose numbers sweetly flow'd	F
The fount that murmur'd and the flowers that blow'd	F
The silver flood that in meanders led	F
His glittering streams along the enliven'd mead	F
The soothing breeze and all those beauties join'd	F
Which whilst they please effeminate the mind	F
In vain while distant on a summit raised	F
The imperial towers of Fame attractive blazed	F
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While thus he traced through Fancy's puzzling maze	A2
The separate sweets of pleasure and of praise	A2
Sudden the wind a fragrant gale convey'd	F
And a new lustre gain'd upon the shade	F
At once before his wondering eyes were seen	B2
Two female forms of more than mortal mien	B2
Various their charms and in their dress and face	C2
Each seem'd to vie with some peculiar grace	C2
This whose attire less clogg'd with art appear'd	F
The simple sweets of innocence endear'd	F
Her sprightly bloom her quick sagacious eye	D2
Show'd native merit mix'd with modesty	F
Her air diffused a mild yet awful ray	L
Severely sweet and innocently gay	L
Such the chaste image of the martial maid	F
In artless folds of virgin white array'd	F
She let no borrow'd rose her cheeks adorn	E2
Her blushing cheeks that shamed the purple morn	E2
Her charms nor had nor wanted artful foils	F2
Or studied gestures or well practised smiles	G2
She scorn'd the toys which render beauty less	H2
She proved the engaging chastity of dress	H2
And while she chose in native charms to shine	M
Even thus she seem'd nay more than seem'd divine	M
One modest emerald clasp'd the robe she wore	I2
And in her hand the imperial sword she bore	I2
Sublime her height majestic was her pace	C2
And match'd the awful honours of her face	C2
The shrubs the flowers that deck'd the verdant ground	F
Seem'd where she trod with rising lustre crown'd	F
Still her approach with stronger influence warm'd	F
She pleased while distant but when near she charm'd	F
So strikes the gazer's eye the silver gleam	J2
That glittering quivers o'er a distant stream	J2
But from its banks we see new beauties rise	A
And in its crystal bosom trace the skies	A
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With other charms the rival vision glow'd	F
And from her dress her tinsel beauties flow'd	F
A fluttering robe her pamper'd shape conceal'd	F
And seem'd to shade the charms it best reveal'd	F
Its form contrived her faulty size to grace	C2
Its hue to give fresh lustre to her face	C2
Her plaited hair disguised with brilliants glared	F
Her cheeks the ruby's neighbouring lustre shared	F
The gaudy topaz lent its gay supplies	A
And every gem that strikes less curious eyes	A
Exposed her breast with foreign sweets perfumed	F
And round her brow a roseate garland bloom'd	F
Soft smiling blushing lips conceal'd her wiles	G2
Yet ah the blushes artful as the smiles	G2
Oft gazing on her shade the enraptured fair	K2
Decreed the substance well deserved her care	K2
Her thoughts to others' charms malignly blind	F
Center'd in that and were to that confined	F
And if on others' eyes a glance were thrown	L2
'Twas but to watch the influence of her own	L2
Much like her guardian fair Cythera's queen	B2
When for her warrior she refines her mien	B2
Or when to bless her Delian favourite's arms	M2
The radiant fair invigorates her charms	M2
Much like her pupil Egypt's sportive dame	W
Her dress expressive and her air the same	W
When her gay bark o'er silver Cydnus roll'd	F
And all the emblazon'd streamers waved in gold	F
Such shone the vision nor forbore to move	N2
The fond contagious airs of lawless love	O2
Each wanton eye deluding glances fired	F
And amorous dimples on each cheek conspired	F
Lifeless her gait and slow with seeming pain	Q
She dragg'd her loitering limbs along the plain	Q
Yet made some faint efforts and first approach'd the swain	Q
So glaring draughts with tawdry lustre bright	F
Spring to the view and rush upon the sight	F
More slowly charms a Raphael's chaster air	K2
Waits the calm search and pays the searcher's care	K2
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Wrapp'd in a pleased suspense the youth survey'd	F
The various charms of each attractive maid	F
Alternate each he view'd and each admired	F
And found alternate varying flames inspired	F
Quick o'er their forms his eyes with pleasure ran	P2
When she who first approach'd him first began	P2
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'Hither dear boy direct thy wandering eyes	A
'Tis here the lovely Vale of Pleasure lies	A
Debate no more to me thy life resign	M
Each sweet which Nature can diffuse is mine	M
For me the nymph diversifies her power	E
Springs in a tree or blossoms in a flower	E
To please my ear she tunes the linnet's strains	Q2
To please my eye with lilies paints the plains	Q2
To form my couch in mossy beds she grows	R2
To gratify my smell perfumes the rose	R2
Reveals the fair the fertile scene you see	F
And swells the vegetable world for me	F
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'Let the gull'd fool the toils of war pursue	J
Where bleed the many to enrich the few	J
Where Chance from Courage claims the boasted prize	A
Where though she give your country oft denies	A
Industrious thou shalt Cupid's wars maintain	Q
And ever gently fight his soft campaign	Q
His darts alone shalt wield his wounds endure	S2
Yet only suffer to enjoy the cure	S2
Yield but to me a choir of nymphs shall rise	A
And fire thy breast and bless thy ravish'd eyes	A
Their beauteous cheeks a fairer rose shall wear	K2
A brighter lily on their necks appear	T2
Where fondly thou thy favour'd head shalt rest	F
Soft as the down that swells the cygnet's nest	F
While Philomel in each soft voice complains	Q2
And gently lulls thee with mellifluous strains	Q2
Whils	Q2

William Shenstone

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