Love
A pleasant deceit
Love
OVer a christall Source
Iolas laid his face,
Of purling Streames to see the restlesse Course.
But scarce he had o'reshadowed the Place,
When in the water he a Child espies,
So like himselfe in stature, Face, and Eyes,
That glad he rose, and cried,
Deare Mates approach, see whom I have descried,
The Boy of whom strange stories Shepheards tell,
Oft-called Hylas, dwelleth in this Well.
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Drummond, William, of Hawthornden. “A pleasant deceit.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/drummond/97/.
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Drummond, William, of Hawthornden. “A pleasant deceit.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/drummond/97/.
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