Salmagundi (Huddesford, 1791)/Address of an Indian Girl to an Adder
ADDRESS
OF AN INDIAN GIRL TO AN ADDER.
WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1740.
BY AN EMINENT LITERARY CHARACTER, THEN A SCHOLAR OF WINCHESTER COLLEGE.
Stay, stay, thou lovely fearful Snake!
Nor hide thee in yon darksome brake;
But let me oft thy form review,
Thy sparkling eyes, and golden hue:
From thence a chaplet shall be wove
To grace the youth I dearest love.
Nor hide thee in yon darksome brake;
But let me oft thy form review,
Thy sparkling eyes, and golden hue:
From thence a chaplet shall be wove
To grace the youth I dearest love.
Then, ages hence, when Thou no more
Shalt glide along the sunny shore,
Thy copied beauties shall be seen;
Thy vermeil red and living green
In mimic folds thou shalt display:
Stay, lovely, fearful Adder, stay!
Shalt glide along the sunny shore,
Thy copied beauties shall be seen;
Thy vermeil red and living green
In mimic folds thou shalt display:
Stay, lovely, fearful Adder, stay!