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I.
While
SAPPHO,
with harmonious Airs,
Her dear PHILENIS charms,
With equal joy the Nymph appears,
Dissolving in her Arms.
II.
Thus to themselves alone they are,
What all Mankind can give;
Alternately the happy Pair
All grant, and all receive.
III.
Like the
Twin-Stars,
so fam'd for Friends,
Who set by Turns and rise;
When
one
to
THETIS
Lap descends
His Brother mounts the Skies.
IV.
With happier Fate, and kinder Care,
These Nymphs by Turns do reign,
While still the
Falling,
does prepare
The Rising, to sustain.
V.
The Joys of either Sex in Love;
In each of them we read,
Successive each, to each does prove,
Fierce Youth and yielding Maid.
