Love Reveng’d: A Song

Celinda who did Love Disdain,
For whom had languisht many a Swain;
Leading her Bleating Flock to drink,
She spy’d upon the Rivers Brink
A Youth, whose Eyes did well declare,
How much he lov’d, but lov’d not her.

At first she Laught, but gaz’d the while,
And soon she lessen’d to a Smile;
Thence to Surprize and Wonder came,
Her Breast to heave, her Heart to flame:
Then cry’d she out, Now, now I prove,
Thou art a God, Almighty Love.

She would have spoke, but shame deny’d,
And bid her first consult her Pride;
But soon she found that Aid was gone;
For Love alas had left her none:
Oh how she burns, but ‘tis too late,
For in her Eyes she reads her Fate.