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First Line: Many a fountain cool and shady / may the traveller's eye invite
Last Line: When she with all her charms is night.


Many a fountain cool and shady
May the traveller's eye invite;
One among them all, sweet Lady,
Seems to flow for his delight;
In many a tree the wilding bee
Might safely hide her honey'd store;
One hive alone the bee will own,
She may not trust her sweets to more.

Say'st thou, "Can that maid be fairer?
Shows her lip a livelier dye?
Hath she treasures richer, rarer?
Can she better love than I?" --
What form'd the spell I ne'er could tell,
But subtle must its working be,
Since, from the hour I felt its pow'r,
No fairer face I wish to see.
Light-wing'd Zephyr, ere he settles
On the loveliest flower that blows,
Never stays to count thy petals,
Dear, delicious, fragrant Rose!
Her features bright elude my sight,
I know not how her tresses lie;
In fancy's maze my spirit plays,
When she with all her charms is night.





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