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The Object thus improv'd by Thought,
WHEN wilt thou break, my stubborn Heart?
Love and Despair, like Twins, possest
I thought, alas! that Love cou'd dwell
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Poems upon several Occasions.
And Fancy blows into a Flame
The Spark, that from her Beauty came.
IV.
By my own Image I am caught:
Pygmalion so, with fatal Art,
Polish'd the Form that stung his Heart.
To MYRA.
I.
O Death, how slow to take my part!
Whatever I pursue, denies,
Death, Death it self, like Myra flies.
II.
At the same fatal Birth my Breast;
No Hope could be, her Scorn was all
That to my destin'd Lot cou'd fall.
III.
But in warm Climes, where no Snow fell;
Like Plants, that kindly Heat require,
To be maintain'd by constant Fire.
IV. That
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