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Thou know'st how guiltless first I met thy flame When love approach'd me under friendship's name My fancy form'd thee of angelic kind Some emanation of th'all beauteous mind. Those smiling Eyes attemp'ring every ray Shone sweetly lambent with celestial day Guiltless I gaz'd, heav'n listen'd while you sung, And truth's divine came mended from that tongue, From lips like those, what precept fail'd to move? Too soon they taught me 'twas no sin to love. Back thro' the paths of pleasing sense I ran Nor wish'd an angel whom I lov'd a man. Dim & remote the Joys of Saints I see Nor envy them [[underline]] that Heav'n I love for thee. --- [[/underline]] [[foreign: French]] il ya de l'indécence, et une coquetterie très refinée a se servir du prétexte d'un devoir respectable pour fixer sur soi l'attention des hommes, et pour exciter dans eux des desirs libertins; voila mon avis sur --qui était la nourrice de sa fille; et qui par une opiniatreté encore plus condamnable parcequ'elle paraissait excusable persistait das le dessein de -- [[/foreign]]
