Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ECHO AND THE LOVER, by ANONYMOUS


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ECHO AND THE LOVER, by                    
First Line: "echo! Mysterious nymph, declare"
Last Line: "who is as fair as phoebe? Answer! / ann, sir"
Subject(s): Women


Lover. Echo! mysterious nymph, declare
Of what you're made, and what you are.
Echo. Air!
Lover. Mid airy cliffs and places high,
Sweet Echo! listening love, you lie.
Echo. You lie!
Lover. Thou dost resuscitate dead sounds, --
Hark! how my voice revives, resounds!
Echo. Zounds!
Lover. I'll question thee before I go, --
Come, answer me more apropos!
Echo. Poh! poh!
Lover. Tell me, fair nymph, if e'er you saw
So sweet a girl as Phoebe Shaw.
Echo. Pshaw!
Lover. Say, what will turn that frisking coney
Into the toils of matrimony?
Echo. Money!
Lover. Has Phoebe not a heavenly brow?
Is not her bosom white as snow?
Echo. Ass! No!.
Lover. Her eyes was ever such a pair?
Are the stars brighter than they are?
Echo. They are!
Lover. Echo, thou liest, but can't deceive me.
Echo. Leave me!
Lover. But come, thou saucy, pert romancer,
Who is as fair as Phoebe? Answer!
Echo. Ann, sir.




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