XXI.

Let his shrill trumpet, with her silver blast,

Of fair Eclecta, and her spousal bed,

Be the sweet pipe, and smooth encomiast:

But my green muse, hiding her younger head,

Under old Camus' flaggy banks, that spread

Their willow locks abroad, and all the day

With their own watery shadows wanton play;

Dares not those high amours, and love-sick songs assay.

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