Poetical recreations consisting of original poems, songs, odes, &c. with several new translations : in two parts / part I, occasionally written by Mrs. Jane Barker, part II, by several gentlemen of the universities, and others.

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Poetical recreations consisting of original poems, songs, odes, &c. with several new translations : in two parts / part I, occasionally written by Mrs. Jane Barker, part II, by several gentlemen of the universities, and others.
Author
Barker, Jane.
Publication
London :: Printed for Benjamin Crayle ...,
1688.
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English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700.
Songs, English -- Texts.
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Page 105

THE MIDDLE SISTER, Ascribed to CLARINDA.

DAme Nature seems to make your Sisters stand, As Handmaids that attend on either hand; To right or left I turn not, Poets say, The middle is the best and safest way. Fortune and Nature are your Friends (my Fair) For they have plac'd you here in Vertue's Chair: Doubtless in you the Middle Grace I see, On this side Faith, on that sweet Charity. Your Sisters stand like Banks on either side, Whilst you the Crystal stream betwixt them glide; Or, if you will, they walk on either side Like Bride-Maids, you in middle like a Bride. What shall I farther add? The Trav'ller sees A pleasant Walk between two rows of Trees: The smooth and silent Flood in th' middle flows, But the Shoars murmur from the Banks rough Brows.
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