First in the dawnings of my earliest Youth
Thou bad'st me seek these woods and court this shade,
Where, musing, my fond breast would melt with ruth
At all the havock that wild Passion made,
Whether false Pleasure lur'd one breast to ill,
Or proud Ambition's range a world with woe did fill.
Thou bad'st me seek these woods and court this shade,
Where, musing, my fond breast would melt with ruth
At all the havock that wild Passion made,
Whether false Pleasure lur'd one breast to ill,
Or proud Ambition's range a world with woe did fill.