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There blend your cares with soft assuasive art There soothe the passions, there unfold your heart Join in each wish, & warming into love Approach [[underline]] the raptures of the blest above. [[/underline]] To Mr X For whom are now your airs put on And what new beauty doom'd to be undone? That careless elegance of dress This essence that perfumes the mind, Your very motion does confess Some sweet conquest is design'd. Alas the poor unhappy maid To what a train of ills betray'd! What fears what pangs shall rend her breast How will her Eyes dissolve in tears! That now with glowing Joy is blest, Charm'd with the faithless vows she hears. For me secure I view the raging main Past are my dangers, & forgot my pain My votive tablet in the temple shews The monument of folly past;
