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For at the window of my bower,

I thro' my casement saw

A youth, sway'd by a sensual power,

regardless of the law

This simple, weak, and heedless one,

his passions did induce,

With hasty steps to pass alone,

near to the harlot's house

In the twilight, at evening hour,

deplorable the sight!

He mov'd towards the dreary bower;

'Twas black, and dark the night.

A woman there did meet the youth,

In fam'd robes of attire;

With subtile heart and shameless mouth,

and full of lew'd desire.

Of a lew'd tongue she is possest,

being perverse in her way;

She in her house deesdoes [sic] seldom rest,

but loves abroad to stray