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SPRING.

THE

FIRST PASTORAL.

To Sir WILLIAM TRUMBAL.

irst in these fields I try the sylvan strains,
Nor blush to sport on Windsor's blissful plains:
Fair Thames flow gently from thy sacred spring,
While on thy banks Sicilian Muses sing;
Let vernal airs thro' trembling osiers play,
And Albion's cliffs resound the rural lay.

You,