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VERSES WRITTEN IN AN ALCOVE.

 

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Jam Cytherea choros ducit Venus, imminente Luna.
Horat.

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Now the moonbeam's trembling lustre
⁠Silvers o'er the dewy green,
And in soft and shadowy colours
⁠Sweetly paints the chequered scene.

Here between the opening branches
⁠Streams a flood of softened light;
There the thick and twisted foliage
⁠Spreads the browner gloom of night.