Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A PASTORAL ODE, by THOMAS RANDOLPH


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First Line: Coy coelia, dost thou see
Last Line: Lest I take heat from thee, and so revive.


COY Coelia, dost thou see
Yon hollow mountain tottering o'er the plain,
O'er which a fatal tree
With treacherous shade betrays the sleepy swain?
Beneath it is a cell,
As full of horror as my breast of care:
Ruin therein might dwell,
As a fit room for guilt and black despair.
Thence will I headlong throw
This wretched weight, this heap of misery,
And in the dust below
Bury my carcase and the thought of thee:
Which when I finish'd have,
O, hate me dead, as thou hast done alive;
And come not near my grave,
Lest I take heat from thee, and so revive.





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