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That all around his downy wings display'd,
This shelter'd rising blushes with a shade.
Thus in luxuriant joys they pass'd the night,
Joys! which Aurora never blab'd by light.
He with a timely care did home retire,
Unsated still, and breathing still desire:
While she her change did from her parents hide,
And was by day a maid, by night a bride.
And oh! how oft their wishes join'd in one,
To hail the setting, not the rising sun.
See here the sweets of love, but quickly past;
Such pleasures are too exquisite to last.
The gawdy scene of summer-glories gone,
Winter with sour and furrow'd looks stalks on.
The full-fledg'd whirlwinds their hoarse voices try,
And drive the clouds, and bluster thro' the sky.
The mounting waves, that peaceful crept before,
Boil into rage, and tumble to the shore.