
And now what tranfport glow'd in either’s eye! 
With concords falfe and hideous profody, 

ojo, THE NATUR sae HISTORY 
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Allin a garden, ona currant- buth, 
- With wond’rous art they built their waving feat 5 
In the next orchard liv’d a friendly Thro. | 
Not diftant far a-‘Woodlark’s foft retreat. 
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Here bleft. with eafe, and in each other bleft, 
With early fongs they wak’d the {prightly groves, 
_ Till time matur’d their blifs, and crown’d their nef 
_.. With infant pledges of their faithful loves, 
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What equal fondnefs ‘dealt the allotted food ! 
What j joy cach other’s likenefs to selery, 
And future fonnets in the ch birping brood! 
But ah! what earthly happinefs can laft ? 
How does-the faire purpofe often fail? 
A truant fchrog-boy! $ wantonnefs could blaft 
- Their rifing hopes, and leave them both to wails 
The moft ungentle of his tribe was he;. 
No generous precept ever touch’d his heart : 
He ferawl’ ( his tafk, and bl under’d o’er his parte 
On Sects plunder bent, with favage eye, 
He mark’d where wrapt in down the younglings lays 
Then sufhing, feiz’d the wretched family, 
And bore them in his impious hands away. 
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