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Since all that 's paft no vows can e'er restore, But joys and griefs alike, once hurry'd o'er, No longer now deserve a smile or tear; Close the fantaftic fcenes-but grace With brightest afpects thy foreface While time's new offspring haftens to appear. With lucky omens guide the coming hours, Command the circling feafons to advance, And form their renovated dance,

With flowing pleasures fraught, and bless'd by friend

ly powers.

IL.

Thy month, O Janus! gave me first to know

A mortal's trifling cares below;

My race of life began with thee.

Thus far, from great misfortunes free,

Contented, I my lot endure,

Nor nature's rigid laws arraign,

Nor fpurn at common ills in vain,

Which folly cannot fhun, nor wife reflection cure.

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III.

But oh!--more anxious for the year to come,

I would foreknow my future doom.
Then tell me, Janus, canft thou spy
Events that yet in embryo lie
For me, in time's myfterious womb?
Tell me nor fhall I dread to hear
A thoufand accidents fevere;
I'll fortify my foul the load to bear,

If love rejected add not to its weight,

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To finish me in woes, and crush me down with fate.
IV.

But if the goddess, in whofe charming eyes,
More clearly written than in fate's dark book,
My joy, my grief, my all of future fortune lies;
If the muft with a lefs propitious look
Forbid my humble facrifice,
Or blaft me with a killing frown;

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If, Janus, this thou feeft in ftore,

Cut fhort my mortal thread, and now
Take back the gift thou didst bestow!
Here let me lay my burden down,

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WHILE on your blooming charms I gaze,

Your tender lips, your foft enchanting eyes,
And all the Venus in your face,

I'm fill'd with pleasure and furprize :
But, cruel goddefs! when I find
Diana's coldness in your mind,

How can I bear that fix'd difdain?
My pleasure dies, and I but live in pain.

AIR.

Tyrant Cupid! when, relenting,
Will you touch the charmer's heart ?
Sooth her breaft to foft confenting,
Or remove from mine the dart!
Tyrant Cupid when, relenting,
Will you touch the charmer's heart?

RECITATIVE.

But fee while to my paffion voice I give,
Th' applauded beauty, doubly bright,
Seems in the moving tale to take delight,

And looks, as he would let me live;

And yet the chides, but with fo sweet an air, That while the Love denies, the yet forbids Despair.

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AIR.

Fear not, doubting fair! t'approve me;
Can you love me?

Frown not, if you answer no;
If you anfwer, frown not, no.
When again I ask, pursuing,
If you'll stay and see my ruin?
Fly-but let me with you go!

Blush not, doubting fair, t' approve me;
Can you love me?

Smile, and every fear forego!

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While down your cheeks the streaming forrows flow, Let murmuring ftrings with the foft voice combine T'exprefs the melody of woe.

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