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RICHARD CRASHAW.

THE SHEPHERD'S RESOLUTION.

SHALL I, wasting in despair,
Die because a woman 's fair?
Or make pale my cheeks with care
'Cause another's rosy are?

Be she fairer than the day,
Or the flowery meads in May,
If she be not so to me,
What care I how fair she be?

Shall my foolish heart be pined
'Cause I see a woman kind?
Or a well-disposèd nature
Joinèd with a lovely feature?
Be she meeker, kinder than
The turtle-dove or pelican,

If she be not so to me,
What care I how kind she be ?

Shall a woman's virtues move
Me to perish for her love?
Or, her well deservings known,
Make me quite forget mine own?
Be she with that goodness blest
Which may merit name of best,
If she be not such to me,
What care I how good she be?

'Cause her fortune seems too high,

Shall I play the fool and die ?
Those that bear a noble mind

Where they want of riches find,

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COUNTY GUY.

FROM "QUENTIN DURWARD."

AH! County Guy, the hour is nigh,
The sun has left the lea,

The orange-flower perfumes the bower,
The breeze is on the sea.

The lark, his lay who trilled all day,
Sits hushed his partner nigh;

Breeze, bird, and flower confess the hour,
But where is County Guy?

The village maid steals through the shade, Her shepherd's suit to hear;

To beauty shy, by lattice high,

Sings high-born cavalier.
The star of Love, all stars above,

Now reigns o'er earth and sky,

And high and low the influence know,
But where is County Guy?

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