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JDESCEND, ye hovering Sylphs! aerial Quires,

NN And ſwecp with little hands your filver Iyres;

(| With fairy footſteps print your grafiy rings,

' Ye Gnomes! accordant to the tinkling ſtrings:

While in ſoft notes I tune to oaten reed

Gay hopes, and amorous ſorrows of the mead.--

From giant Oaks, that wave their branches dark,

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pj To the dwarf Mols that clings upon their bark,

What Beaux and Beauties crowd the gaudy groves,

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And woo and win their vegetable Loves, TO

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