Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AN AMERICAN LOVE-ODE; TAKEN FROM SECOND VOLUME OF MONTAGNE'S ESSAYS, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER



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AN AMERICAN LOVE-ODE; TAKEN FROM SECOND VOLUME OF MONTAGNE'S ESSAYS, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stay, stay, thou lovely, fearful snake
Last Line: Stay, lovely, fearful adder stay.
Subject(s): Animals; Love; Montaigne, Michel De (1533-1592); Snakes; United States; Serpents; Vipers; America


I.
STAY, stay, thou lovely, fearful Snake,
Nor hide thee in yon darksome Brake:
But let me oft thy Charms review,
Thy glittering Scales, and golden Hue;
From these a Chaplet shall be wove,
To grace the Youth I dearest love.

II.
Then Ages hence, when thou no more,
Shalt creep along the sunny Shore,
Thy copy'd Beauties shall be seen;
Thy Red and Azure mix'd with Green,
In mimic Folds thou shalt display:——
Stay, lovely, fearful Adder stay.





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