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SHE Bas had chac’d the meuneia fioie | 
- And kindly loos’d the frozen foil ; ‘ 
The ‘melting ftreams began toflow, .. 4 a 
_ And d ploughmien urg’d their anqual toil. 4 
a hel then, aid the vocal throng, a 
Whom nature wakes to mirth and love, oa 
A Black-bird rais’d his am’rous fong, 
_. And thus it echo’d thro’ the grove. ‘ 
O faire of the feather’d train! 
For whom I fing, fof whom I burn, 
Attend with pity to my ftrain, 5 
_ Andgrant my love a kind return, 
For fee the wintry ftorms are flown, | 
And gentle Zephyrs fan the air; | 
“ Let us the genial influence own; 
‘Let us the vernal paftime fhare. 
The Raven plumes his jetty wing, 
To-pleafe his croaking paramour ; 
The Larks refponfive ditties fing, » 
And tell their paffion as they foar, 
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