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VGW(HU.769.124
16 Nov 1769:41 (965)
[signed] Juvenis.
BION. IDYL. 3.
Venus the gay, the smiling Queen of love,
Descending quickly from the realms above,
In her fair lily hand her infant boy
To me she led, Cupid, her darling joy:
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Pleas'd at the task the shepherds' airs I sing,
Their herds, their flocks, the pleasure of the spring,
And vainly to the wanton boy disclose
Whence first the various kinds of song arose:
To Pan the rustick pipe is due,
The late fair Maia's son first blew;
The lovely youth who rules the heavenly fire,
To him we owe the sweetly, shrilly, sounding lyre.
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