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WALLER.
In another place;
While in the park I sing, the listening deer
Attend my passion, and forget to fear;
When to the beeches I report my flame,
They bow their heads, as if they felt the same.
To gods appealing, when l reach their bowers,
With loud complaints they answer me in showers.
To thee a wild and cruel soul is given,
More deaf than trees, and prouder than the heaven!
Attend my passion, and forget to fear;
When to the beeches I report my flame,
They bow their heads, as if they felt the same.
To gods appealing, when l reach their bowers,
With loud complaints they answer me in showers.
To thee a wild and cruel soul is given,
More deaf than trees, and prouder than the heaven!
On the head of a stag.
O fertile head which every year
Could such a crop of wonder bear!
The teeming earth did never bling
So soon, so hard, so huge a thing:
Which might it never have been cast,
Each year's growth added to the last,
These lofty branches had supply'd
The Earth's bold son's prodigious pride;
Heaven with these engines had been scal’d
When mountains heap'd on mountains fail'd.
Could such a crop of wonder bear!
The teeming earth did never bling
So soon, so hard, so huge a thing:
Which might it never have been cast,
Each year's growth added to the last,
These lofty branches had supply'd
The Earth's bold son's prodigious pride;
Heaven with these engines had been scal’d
When mountains heap'd on mountains fail'd.
Sometimes having succeeded in the first part, he makes a feeble conclusion. In the song of “Sacharissa's and Amoret's Friendship,” the two last stanzas ought to have been omitted.
His images of gallantry are not always in the highest degree delicate.
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