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MUSIDORA:

A New Song. The Words made to a pretty Scotch Ayre.

OPening Budds began to shew
    The Beauty of their vernal Treasure,
Spring had routed Frost and Snow,
    Obeying Flora's Pleasure:
Damon by a River's side,
Whose silver Streams did gently glide,
Compar'd his Blessings to the Tide,
    That flow'd beyond all Measure.

Musidora Fair and Young
  With panting Rapture still alarms me,
Motion, Shape, or Charming Tongue,
  All raise a Flame that warms me:
Eyes excelling Titan's Ray;
But when she's most divinely gay,
And kindly designs to sing and play,
    Oh Venus! how she charms me.

Sylvia, dearest of all Dears,
  Charm'd by Nature to content ye,
In her Face the Figures wears
  Of Pleasure, Joy, and Plenty:
Kindling Hopes, and Doubts, and Fears,
The Young inchants, the Old she chears,
So well she makes dull seventy Years,
  Grow brisk as Five and Twenty.