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That to the grotto leads, my dark abode.'
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Scarce had he said, before the warriors' eyes
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The flood on either hand its billows rears,
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And in the mid a spacious arch appears.
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Their hands he seized and down the steep he led,
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Discovered half, and half concealed, their way,
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The uncertain crescent gleams a sickly light.
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Of many a flood they viewed the secret source,
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The birth of rivers, rising to their course;
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Whatever with copious train its channel fills,
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Further they pass, where ripening minerals flow,
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Which soon the parent sun's warm powers refine,
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In one rich mass unite the precious store,
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The parts combine and harden into over.
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Here gems break through the night with glittering beam,
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And paint the margin of the costly stream.
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All stones of lustre shoot their vivid ray,
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Here the soft emerald smiles, of verdant hue,
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And rubies flame, with sapphires heavenly blue;
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The diamond there attracts the wondering sight,
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Proud of its thousand dies and luxury of light.
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WHere gild my thoughts, rash inclinations stay,
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And let me think what it's you fool away,
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Stay ere it be to late, yet stay and take,
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O! stupid folly it's eternal Joy,
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That I'm about to barter for a toy;
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It is my God o dreadful hazard where,
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Shall I again the boundless loss repair!
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It is my Soul a Soul that cost the blood,
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And painful agonies of an humbled God,
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O blessed occasion made me stay to think,
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Ere I was hurried off the dangerous brink,
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Should I have took the charming venom in,
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And coped with all these terrors for a sin,
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How equal had my condemnation been?
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With fond regret; while in this last adieu
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A silent tear those brilliant hours shall mourn
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For ever past. So from the pleasant shore,
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Born with the struggling bark against the wind,
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The trembling pennant fluttering looks behind
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With vain reluctance! Amid those woods no more
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For me the voice of pleasure shall resound,
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Nor soft flutes warbling over the placid lake
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Aerial music shall for me awake,
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And wrap my charmed soul in peace profound!
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Though lost to me, here still may Taste delight
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IN ancient times, some hundred winters past,
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When British dames, for conscience sake, were chaste,
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If some frail nymph, by youthful passion swayed,
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From virtue's paths unhappily had strayed:
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When banished reason reassumed her place,
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In decent solitude and pious tears;
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Veiled in some convent made her peace with heaven,
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Grown old in sin, and dead to amorous joy,
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No acts of penance their great souls employ.
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Without a blush behold each nymph advance,
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The luscious Heroine of her own romance.
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Each harlot triumphs in her loss of fame,
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And boldly prints and publishes her shame.
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YOU noble few, firm fixed in virtue's cause,
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You just protectors of our sacred laws,
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Whose hearts stern avarice strove in vain to steel,
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And blessed with souls disdaining not to feel;
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Let not the genial warmth, the latent fire,
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That glows in Britain's valiant sons, expire;
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But in your breasts let justice still prevail,
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Angelic maid, thy melting eye may boast
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Unhappy land, where hostile avarice reigns,
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And rears her bloodstained banners over thy plains;
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To burst each tender tie of social love;
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Spread wide destruction over the bleeding land;
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And banished far the healing balm of peace.
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Yet once on them fair Peace propitious smiled,
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And social joy the tedious hour beguiled;
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On them bright Pleasure cast her fairest ray,
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Soft as the rosy beam of opening day;
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Love, health, and innocence, they still possessed,
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Contested tenants of the peaceful breast;
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Vindictive fate ruled over thy dreadful hour,
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Deaf to the mourning parents plaintive cry,
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The widow's fondness or the lover's sigh,
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From each fond breast the hapless victims tore,
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Far from the prospect of their native shore.
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Think not, you slaves in pleasure's venal train,
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The weeping orphan's tears are poured in vain;
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Awhile in soft repose you calmly rest,
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Nor heed the pangs that tear each bleeding breast;
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And fair the fading flowers of fortune spring;
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Yet heaven, indignant, views the impious deed
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Soon shall the voice of angry Justice call,
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And bid the pointed sword of vengeance fall;
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Shall pleasure then avert the dreadful nod,
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Or calm the vengeance of an angry God?
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No, in that hour reflection wakes anew,
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And calls each crime, each folly, to the view;
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Bids the lost thoughts eternity explore,
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Or pause over scenes we can recall no more.
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To man superior reason's light was given,
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Unfailing beam, bright intellectual ray
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Thou steady guide through errors devious way;
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