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I.

While

SAPPHO,

with harmonious Airs,

Her dear PHILENIS charms,

With equal joy the Nymph appears,

Dissolving in her Arms.

II.

Thus to themselves alone they are,

What all Mankind can give;

Alternately the happy Pair

All grant, and all receive.

III.

Like the

Twin-Stars,

so fam'd for Friends,

Who set by Turns and rise;

When

one

to

THETIS

Lap descends

His Brother mounts the Skies.

IV.

With happier Fate, and kinder Care,

These Nymphs by Turns do reign,

While still the

Falling,

does prepare

The Rising, to sustain.

V.

The Joys of either Sex in Love;

In each of them we read,

Successive each, to each does prove,

Fierce Youth and yielding Maid.

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