| T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22. | | | | Song: “Whilst Strephon in his pride of youth” | | Anonymous |
| | (From The Cupid, 1736)
WHILST Strephon in his pride of youth, | |
| To me alone profess’d | |
| Dissembled passion, dress’d like truth, | |
| He triumph’d in my breast. | |
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| I lodged him near my yielding heart, | 5 |
| Denied him not my arms; | |
| Deluded by his pleasing art, | |
| Transported with his charms. | |
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| The wanderer now I lose, or share | |
| With every lovely maid: | 10 |
| Who makes the Heart of man her care, | |
| Shall have her own betray’d. | |
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| Our charms on them we vainly prove, | |
| And think we conquest gain; | |
| Where one a victim falls to love, | 15 |
| A thousand tyrants reign. | | | | |
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