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Rh  In this new paradiſe the goddeſs reigns In ſovereign ſtate, and mocks the lover’s pains: Beneath thoſe beams that ſcorch us from her eyes Her ſnowy boſom ſtill unmelted lies: Love from her lips ſpreads all his odours round, But bears on ice, and ſprings from frozen ground.
 * So cold the clime that can ſuch wonders bear,

The garden ſeems an emblem of the fair. hands divine have planted and protect The torrent ſpares, and deluges reſpect; So when the waters o’er the world were ſpread, Covering each oak, and ev’ry mountain’s head, The choſen Patriarch ſail’d within his ark, Nor might the waves o’erwhelm the ſacred bark. The charming Flavia is no leſs, we find, The favourite of Heav’n than of mankind: The gods, like rivals, imitate our care, And vie with mortals to oblige the fair. These favours, thus beſtow’d on her alone, Are but the homage which they ſend her down.
 * O Flavia! may thy virtue from above

Be crown’d with bleſſings endleſs as my love!