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INVOCATION.

Written on a very hot day, in August 1783.

1 COOLING zephyrs haste away,
2 Round my humid temples play;
3 Groves and grots in pity leave,
4 On my fainting bosom breathe!
5 Skim, as you pass, your silken wings
6 O'er gurgling founts, and glassy springs.
7 Oh! come from Greenland's icy plains,
8 Where silver Winter constant reigns;
9 Or from the Arctic, higher fly
10 Thro' the chill Norwegian sky —
11 Turn not to Gallia's sunny vales,
12 Nor mix with yours Italia's gales,
13 Strait o'er the northern ocean sweep,
14 Where pearls the frozen Naïads weep;
15 But on high Grampia's fleecy top,
16 Where kids, the gelid herbage crop,
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17 There zephyr touch! — then, with new wing
18 Fresh from its chilly caverns spring.
19 Oh! linger not, midst England's fields,
20 Nor taste the sweets the garden yields;
21 Heed not our meadows' gaudy charms,
22 But dart, with vigour, to my arms!

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Title (in Source Edition): INVOCATION. Written on a very hot day, in August 1783.
Author: Hannah Cowley (née Parkhouse)
Themes: weather
Genres: occasional poem

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Cowley, Mrs. (Hannah), 1743-1809. The Poetry of Anna Matilda. London: printed by John Bell, British Library, Strand, Bookseller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. M DCC LXXXVIII., 1788, pp. []-3. [8],139,[1]p.; 8⁰. (ESTC T90094; OTA K073164.000) (Page images digitized by University of Minnesota Library.)

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