Love
Song, from Metastatio
From Poetical Works, ed. Walter Scott (1810), vol. I
Love
Mild breeze, when thou shalt fan my fair,
Tell her a sigh augments thy gales;
But to reveal the source forbear,
From whence thy gentle breath exhales.
Clear stream, if thou her step shalt meet,
Say, with a tear thy currents swell,
But do not to the nymph repeat,
From whose enamour’d lid it fell.
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Codex Note
Source: The Poetical Works of Anna Seward, ed. Walter Scott (Edinburgh: Ballantyne, 1810), vol. I.
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