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First Line: Round they coasts, fair nymph of britain
Last Line: And takes for kings the tyrian dye.
Subject(s): Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Nymphs; Pan (mythology); Singing & Singers; Songs


ROUND thy Coasts, Fair Nymph of Britain,
For thy Guard our Waters flow:
Proteus all his Herds admitting
On thy Greens to Graze below.
Foreign Lands thy Fishes Tasting
Learn from thee Luxurious Fasting.

1

For Folded Flocks, on Fruitful Plains,
The Shepherds and the Farmers Gains,
Fair Britain all the world outvyes;
And Pan, as in Arcadia reigns
Where Pleasure mixt with Profit lyes.

2

Though Jasons Fleece was Fam'd of old,
The British Wool is growing Gold;
No Mines can more of Wealth supply:
It keeps the Peasant from the Cold,
And takes for Kings the Tyrian Dye.





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