The Poetical Works of the Right Hon. George Granville, Lord Lansdowne/56

by George Granville

PHYLLIS DRINKING.

I.

While Phyllis is drinking, Love and Wine in alliance,
With forces united, bid reſiſtleſs defiance;
By the touch of her lips the wine ſparkles higher,
And her eyes by her drinking redouble their fire.

II.

Her cheeks glow the brighter, recruiting their colour,5
As flowers by ſprinkling revive with freſh odour;
Each dart dipp’d in wine gives a wound beyond curing,
And the liquor, like oil, makes the flame more enduring.

III.

Then, Phyllis! begin, let our raptures abound,
And a kiſs and a glaſs be ſtill going round;10
Relieving each other our pleaſures are laſting,
And we never are cloy’d, yet are ever a-taſting.12