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To its own Proper Tune.

NE night I dream’d I lay most easy down by a murmuring river side, Where lovely banks were spread with daisies and the streams did gently glide ; All around me and quite over, spreading branches were display’d. Which interwoven in due order, soon became a pleasant shade.

In these raptures of delusion, dull’d with slumber and sweet craft, I thought I law my lovely Susan, thro’ the green and blooming trees ; The moon gave light, I could discern. how my goddess mov’d along, Attended by each killing charm, while the fair one sweetly sang.

You friendly shades of night convey me, to Adonis, my sweet joy, You gods and goddesses pray guide me, to that dear and darling boy; You noify winds give over blowing, cease a while that I may hear, If sweet Adonis be a roving, in the groves and valleys near.