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SONGS.
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For hearts o'ercome with love and grief
All nature yields but one relief;
Die, hapleſs Araminta, die.


SONG VI.

WHEN firſt upon your tender cheek
I ſaw the morn of beauty break
With mild and cheering beam,
I bow'd before your infant ſhrine,
The earlieſt ſighs you had were mine,
And you my darling theme.

I ſaw you in that opening morn
For beauty's boundleſs empire born,

And