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WHEN THE BRIGHT GOD OF DAY, by                    
Last Line: If you rashly approach near the sound.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology


WHEN the bright god of day
Drove westward his ray,
And the evening was charming and clear,
The swallows amain
Nimbly skim o'er the plain,
And our shadows like giants appear.

In a jessamine bower,
When the bean was in flower,
And Zephyrs breathed odours around,
Loved Celia was set,
With her song and spinet,
And she charmed all the grove with the sound.

'Rosy bowers,' she sung,
While the harmony rung,
And the birds they all fluttering arrive;
The industrious bees,
From the flowers and trees,
Gently hum with their sweets to their hive.

The gay god of love,
As he flew o'er the grove,
By Zephyrs conducted along;
As she touched on the strings,
He beat time with his wings,
And Echo repeated the song.

O you mortals! beware
How you venture too near,
Love doubly is armèd to wound:
Your fate you can't shun,
For you're surely undone,
If you rashly approach near the sound.





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