The poetical works of James Thomson ...

62 SONGS.
TO THE GOD OF FOND DESIRE.
ONE: day the God of fond desire,
On mischief bent, to Damon said,'Why not disclose your tender fire,
Not own it to the lovely maid?'
The shepherd mark'd his treacherous art,
And, softly sighing, thus replied:
"Tis true, you have subdued my heart,
But shall not triumph o'er my pride.'The slave, in private only bears
Your bondage, who his love conceals;
But when his passion he declares,
You drag him at your chariot-wheels.'
THE LOVER'S FATE.
HARD is the fate of him who loves,
Yet dares not tell his trembling pain,
But to the sympathetic groves,
But to the lonely listening plain.
Oh! when she blesses next your shade,
Oh! when her footsteps next are seen