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A SONG.

1 LOVE, thou art best of Human Joys,
2 Our chiefest Happiness below;
3 All other Pleasures are but Toys,
4 Musick without Thee is but Noise,
5 And Beauty but an empty Show.
6 Heav'n, who knew best what Man wou'd move,
7 And raise his Thoughts above the Brute;
8 Said, Let him Be, and let him Love;
9 That must alone his Soul improve,
10 Howe'er Philosophers dispute.

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Title (in Source Edition): A SONG.
Themes: love
Genres: song
References: DMI 23624

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Winchilsea, Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of, 1661-1720. Miscellany poems, on several occasions: Written by the Right Honble Anne, Countess of Winchilsea. London: printed for J. B. and sold by Benj. Tooke, William Taylor, and James Round, 1713, p. 270. [8],390p. ; 8⁰. (ESTC T94539; Foxon pp. 274-5; OTA K076314.000) (Page images digitized from a copy in the Bodleian Library [Buxton 100].)

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