Volume 5 — A SONG.
Reading edition
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IT was a happy Golden Day, When fair Althea Kind and Gay, Put all but Love and me away; I arm’d with soft Words did Address, Sweet and kind Kisses far express, A greater Joy and Happiness. Nature the best Instructeress cry’d, Her Ivory Pillows to divide, That Love might Sail with Wind and Tide; She rais’d the Mast and sail’d by it, That Day two Tides together met, Drove him on Shore soon dropping wet.