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Alas! regardless of their doom.

The lovely victims rove ;

No sense of sufferings yet to come

Can now their prudence move:

But fee! where all around them wait

The minifters of female fate,

An artful, perjur'd, cruel train;

Ah! fhew them where in ambush stand

To seize their prey, the faithless band

Of falfe deceitful men!

These shall the luft of gaming wear,

That harpy of the mind,

With all the troop of rage and fear,

That follows close behind:

Or pining love fhall wafte their youth,

Or jealoufy, with rankling tooth,

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That gnaws bright Hymen's golden chain,

Who opens wide the fatal gate,

For fad diftruft and ruthless hate,

And forrow's pallid train.

Ambition this fhall tempt to fix

Her hopes on fomething high,

To barter, for a coach and fix,

Her peace and liberty.

The ftings of fcandal these shall try,

And affectation's haughty eye,

That fcowls on those it us'd to greet,

The cutting fneer, th' abusive song,

And falfe report, that glides along,

With never-refting feet.

And

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These aid from quacks, and cordials beg,

While this, transform'd by folly's hand,

Remains a-while at her command

A tea-pot, or an egg.

To each her fuff'rings: all must grieve,
And pour a filent groan,

At homage others charms receive,

Or flights that meet their own: ---

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But

But ill the voice of truth fevere

Will fuit the gay, regardless ear,

Whofe joy in mirth and revels lies!
Thought would deftroy this paradise.
No more! Where ignorance is blifs,
?Tis folly to be wife.

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Evening Contemplation

IN

A COLLEGE.

BEING

A Parody on the Elegy in a Country

Church-Yard.

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