Volume 5 — A SONG.
Reading edition
Set by Mr. William Turner.
[Listen]
LONG was the Day e’re Alexis my Lover, To finish my Hopes would his Passion reveal; He could not speak, nor I could not discover, What my poor aking Heart was so loath to conceal: Till the Strength of his Passion his Fear had remov’d, Then we mutually talk’d, and we mutually lov’d. Groves for Umbrella’s did kindly o’er-shade us, From Phœbus hot rages, who like envy in strove; Had not kind Fate this Provision made us, All the Nymphs of the Air would have envy’d our Love: But we stand below Envy that ill-natur’d Fate, And above cruel Scorn is happy Estate.