118. THE BUBBLE: A SONG

To my revenge, and to her desperate fears,

Fly, thou made bubble of my sighs and tears!

In the wild air, when thou hast roll'd about,

And, like a blasting planet, found her out;

Stoop, mount, pass by to take her eye--then glare

Like to a dreadful comet in the air:

Next, when thou dost perceive her fixed sight

For thy revenge to be most opposite,

Then, like a globe, or ball of wild-fire, fly,

And break thyself in shivers on her eye!

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