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Poems on

Daphnis and Lycidas.

A

PASTORAL.

They sing the different Success and
Absence of their Loves
.


To the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Townshend, of Rainham in Norfolk.


-Sylvæ sunt Consule dignæ. Virg.


Daphnis.

How calm the Evening! see the falling Day
Gilds every Mountain with a ruddy Ray!
In gentle Sighs the softly whisp'ring Breeze
Salutes the Flow'rs, and waves the trembling Trees;

Hark!