THROUGH FINLAND. 
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44 ter ! I fhould leave every thing to attend upon my beloved, 
44 who is the dear objed of my fummer-thoughts, and winter- 
“ cares. 
This verfion in rhyme is neither fo clofe as metaphrafe, nor fo 
diftant as paraphrafe. 
I. 
44 Oh were my love but here'with me ! 
44 Cou’d I his well-known perfon fee ! 
44 How fliou’d I fly to his embrace, 
44 Tho* blood of wolves diftain’d his face; 
44 Prefs’d to my heart, his hand wou’d take, 
44 Tho* ’twere encircled by a fhake. 
II. 
44 Thofe winds that whifper thro* the wood, 
44 Why is their fpeech not underflood ? 
44 They might exchange the lover’s pray’r, 
44 And figh for flgh returning bear. 
III. 
44 Ill-cook’d the redor’s meals wou’d be, 
44 Drefling his daughter wait for me ; 
44 Whilft kitchen, toilet, I forfake, 
44 And thought of my love only take ; 
44 On that alone my care beftow, 
44 My fummer’s wifli, my winter’s vow.” 
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