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SONNETS,
Etc.
“Nugae Canorae.”
On reading Poems by MOORE, the translator
of Anacreon, under the name of “LITTLE.”
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PRUD’RY perchance
as here she beams
Thro’ modesty’s affected veil,
May blush to look on nature’s themes,
And spurn the bard’s enamor’d tale!
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2.
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the frown of crabbed age, |
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soul to proferr’d bliss may steel;
And mark as errors in the page,
Affections which it cannot feel!
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But
every pulse of gen’rous youth
To sympathetic joys must move;
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And
life asserts it’s noblest truth,
When rapture warms a mutual love!
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Then
(far from themes of labor’d art)
Be mine the soft ingenuous strain,
Which stealing from the Poet’s heart,
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thro’ the Reader’s heart again!
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