The Poetical Works of the Right Hon. George Granville, Lord Lansdowne/67
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TO MIRA.
LOVING AT FIRST SIGHT.
I.
No warning of th’ approaching flame,
Swiftly like ſudden death it came:
Like travellers by lightning kill’d,
I burnt the moment I beheld.
II.
In whom ſo many charms are plac’d,5
Is with a mind as nobly grac’d;
The caſe, ſo ſhining to behold,
Is fill’d with richeſt gems and gold.
III.
To what my eyes admir’d before
I add a thouſand graces more,10
And Fancy blows into a flame
The ſpark that from her beauty came.
IV.
The object thus improv’d by thought,
By my own image I am caught:
Pygmalion ſo, with fatal art,
Poliſh’d the form that ſtung his heart.16