Volume 5 — A SONG.
Reading edition
Set by Mr. Anthony Young.
[Listen]
CEASE whining Damon to Complain, Of thy Unhappy Fate; That Sylvia should thy Love disdain, Which lasting was and great. For Love so constant flames so bright, More unsuccessful prove: Than cold neglect and sudden slight, To gain the Nymph you love. Then only you’ll obtain the Prize, When you her Coyness use; If you pursue the Fair, she flies, But if you fly, pursues. Had Phœbus not pursu’d so fast The seeming cruel she; The God a Virgin had embrac’d, And not a lifeless Tree.