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1743 | A Pastoral Ballad

Hope

She will say 'twas a barbarous deed.
For he ne'er could be true, she aver'd,
Who could rob a poor bird of its young:
And I love'd her the more, when I heard
Such tenderness fall from her toungue.
(William Shenstone, Pastoral Ballad [1743], "Hope")

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1743 | William Shenstone,"Hope," Part 2 of A Pastoral Ballad, in Four Parts Written 1743 in The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone ([Posthumously published] (London, 1764; Digitized by Google, 2007)