A New SONG, called,
Parthenias Complaint
On the Ingratiof STREPHON.
To a delicate new Tune.
This may be Printed, R.P.
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AS on the dearest Strephons Breast,
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Parthenia leand her mournfull Head,
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Expecting there she should have rest,
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by loving sighs, and thus she said:
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O Phoebus God of tuneful Strings,
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And Venus Queen of softest Fire,
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Thou God of all harmonious Things,
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inspire our Hearts with like desire.
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II.
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But when she found the Gods above,
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to ease her Pain no Cure applyd,
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And Strephon backward of his love,
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then to herself Parthenia cryd:
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Amongst Woods and Hills Ill mourn my Fate,
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to them of all my Wrongs complain;
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Theyll pity this my wretched State,
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and eccho back my Woes again.
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III.
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Or to a pleasant myrtle shade,
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to ease my present Cares Ill go,
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A place which Nature only made,
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for Lovers to declare their Woe.
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There Ill ingrateful Strephon name,
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and tell the featherd Quire my Care:
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And in harmonious Notes proclaim,
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the endless cause of my Dispair.
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IV.
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Each day within a silent Bowr,
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with Arms across, Ill sighing Muse;
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In private spend each restless hour,
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and busie Natures Works peruse:
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But when the God of Sleep shall call,
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and all my pleasant Cares destroy,
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Upon the tender Grass Ill fall,
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and Dream of all my former joy.
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V.
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But when the glittring God of day
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expands his warm and cheerful Beams,
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And guilds with his delightful Ray
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the flowry Meads and purling Streams;
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Then Birds their lazy slumber scorn,
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delighted with approaching day,
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And welcome in the glorious Morn,
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with notes will melt my cares away.
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VI.
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My dearest Strephon, Ah, Return!
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ye Gods with Love his Heart inspire,
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Ah, hear the wrongd Parthenia mourn,
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and quench the Heart youve set on fire!
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If you continue thus unkind,
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Parthenia must unhappy be,
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And to her last hour be confind
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within the bounds of misery.
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VII.
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Ingreateful Strephon, how could you
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the kind Pathenias Love implore,
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Now causeless bid the Nymph adieu,
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whom you so highly lovd before?
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But when my tender Soul shall flye
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to th lofty Regions of the Just,
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No thought of Love shall you enjoy
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when I lye stifled in the Dust.
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