That gentle, yet refiftless Heat, Which raises Man to all things good and great: While other Paflions of the Mind To low Brutality debafe Mankind, By Love we are above our felves refin'd. } Oh Love, thou Trance Divine! in which the Soul, Unclogg'd with worldly Cares, may range without Controul; And foaring to her Heav'n, from thence infpir'd can teach High Myfterics, above poor Reason's feeble Reach. II. To weak old Age Prudence fomeAid may prove, And curb those Appetites that faintly move; But wild, impetuous Youth is tam'd by nothing less than Love. Of Men too rough for Peace, too rude for Arts, And through the clofeft Pores a Paffage find, New Charms in vain a Lover's Faith would prove; Hermits or Bed-rid Men they'll fooner move: The fair Inveigler will but fadly find, There's no fuch Eunuch as a Man in Love. Do Wonders, and is more than Man. Both Heav'n and Earth would our Defires confine But yet in vain both Heav'n and Earth combine, Hymen makes faft the Hand, but Love the Heart; 2 Whose Whofe Laws once broke, we are not held by force, But the falfe Breach itself is a Divorce. III. For Love the Mifer will his Gold defpife, That Mafter-like thou giv'ft the laft great Touch, Thy happy Stroke can into Softness bring Reafon, that rough and wrangling thing.. From Childhood upwards we decay, And grow but greater Children ev'ry Day: So Reafon how can we be faid to rife? So many Cares attend the being wife, 'Tis rather falling down a Precipice. } From Senfe to Reason unimprov'd we move ; IV. Thou reigneft o'er our earthly Gods; Uncrown'd by thee their other Crowns are Loads; His Fellow Slaves he takes them now to be, For Love, the tim'rous bafhful Maid Of nothing but denying is afraid; For Love fhe overcomes her Shame, Forfakes her Fortune, and forgets her Fame; Thanks Heav'n for that, and never minds the reft. V. Love |