William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. | | The Indifferent | By William Pattison (17061727) |
| IF from the lustre of the sun, | |
To catch your fleeting shade you run, | |
In vain is all your haste, Sir; | |
But if your feet reverse the race, | |
The fugitive will urge the chase, | 5 |
And follow you as fast, Sir. | |
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Thus, if at any time, as now, | |
Some scornful Chloe you pursue, | |
In hopes to overtake her; | |
Be sure you neer too eager be, | 10 |
But look upont as cold as she, | |
And seemingly forsake her. | |
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So I and Laura tother day, | |
Were coursing round a cock of hay, | |
While I could neer oer get her; | 15 |
But, when I found I ran in vain, | |
Quite tird I turnd me back again, | |
And, flying from her, met her. | | | |
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