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 That all around his downy wings display'd, This shelter'd rising blushes with a shade. Thus in luxuriant joys they pass'd the night, Joys! which Aurora never blab'd by light. He with a timely care did home retire, Unsated still, and breathing still desire: While she her change did from her parents hide, And was by day a maid, by night a bride. And oh! how oft their wishes join'd in one, To hail the setting, not the rising sun. See here the sweets of love, but quickly past; Such pleasures are too exquisite to last. The gawdy scene of summer-glories gone, Winter with sour and furrow'd looks stalks on. The full-fledg'd whirlwinds their hoarse voices try, And drive the clouds, and bluster thro' the sky. The mounting waves, that peaceful crept before, Boil into rage, and tumble to the shore.