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A NOSEGAY FOR LAURA, JULY 1745, by                    
First Line: Come, ye fair, ambrosial flowers
Last Line: Sweetly dying on her breast.
Subject(s): Courtship; Flowers


COME, ye fair, ambrosial flowers,
Leave your beds, and leave your bowers,
Blooming, beautiful and rare,
Form a posy for my fair;
Fair, and bright, and blooming be,
Meet for such a nymph as she.
Let the young vermilion rose
A becoming blush disclose;
Such as Laura's cheeks display,
When she steals my heart away.
Add carnation's varied hue,
Moisten'd with the morning dew:
To the woodbine's fragrance join
Sprigs of snow white jessamine.

Add no more; already I
Shall, alas! with envy die,
Thus to see my rival blest,
Sweetly dying on her breast.





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