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SUMMER.

THE

SECOND PASTORAL.

To Dr. GARTH.

faithful swain, whom Love had taught to sing,
Bewail'd his fate beside a silver Spring;
Where gentle Thames his winding waters leads
Thro' verdant forests, and thro' flow'ry meads.
There while he mourn'd, the streams forgot to flow,
The flocks around a dumb compassion show,

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