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 Fann'd with their flowing skirts, the sky was mild; And heaven's blue fields with brighter radiance smil'd,


 * Now in a garden deck'd with verdant bowers

The glittering car descends on bending flowers: The goddess still with looks divinely fair Surveys the sleeping objecr of her care; Then o'er her cheek her magick finger lays. Soft as the gale that o'er a violet plays, And thus in sounds, that favour'd mortals hear, She gently whispers in her ravish'd ear:


 * "Awake, sweet maid, and view this charming scene

"For ever beauteous, and for ever green; "Here living rills of purest nectar flow "O'er meads that with unfading flowerets glow; "Mov'd by the breath of ever-blooming May; "Here in the lap of pleasure shalt thou rest, "Our lov'd companion, and our honoured guest."


 * The damsel hears the heavenly notes distil,

Like melting snow, or like a vernal rill,