Song, By A Person Of Quality, Written In The Year 1733.

1 Fluttering, spread thy purple pinions,     Gentle Cupid, o'er my heart,     I a slave in thy dominions;     Nature must give way to art.     2 Mild Arcadians, ever blooming,     Nightly nodding o'er your flocks,     See my weary days consuming,     All beneath yon flowery rocks.     3 Thus the Cyprian goddess, weeping,     Mourn'd Adonis, darling youth:     Him the boar, in silence creeping,     Gored with unrelenting tooth.     4 Cynthia, tune harmonious numbers;     Fair Discretion, string the lyre;     Soothe my ever-waking slumbers:     Bright Apollo, lend thy choir.     5 Gloomy Pluto, king of terrors,     Arm'd in adamantine chains,     Lead me to the crystal mirrors,     Watering soft Elysian plains.     6 Mournful cypress, verdant willow,     Gilding my Aurelia's brows,     Morpheus hovering o'er my pillow,     Hear me pay my dying vows.     7 Melancholy smooth Maeander,     Swiftly purling in a round,     On thy margin lovers wander,     With thy flowery chaplets crown'd.     8 Thus when Philomela, drooping,     Softly seeks her silent mate,     See the bird of Juno stooping;     Melody resigns to fate.