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VERSES written in an Alcove.
Jam Cytherea choros ducit Venus imminente Luna.
Horat.
NOW the moon-beam's trembling luſtre
Silvers o'er the dewy green,
And in ſoft and ſhadowy colours
Sweetly paints the checquer'd ſcene.
Here between the opening branches
Streams a flood of ſoften'd light,
There the thick and twiſted foliage
Spreads the browner gloom of night.
This
