Poem by Charles Sackville

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Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes,
      United, cast too fierce a light,
Which blazes high but quickly dies,
      Warms not the heart but hurts the sight.

Love is a calm and tender joy,
      Kind are his looks and soft his pace;
Her Cupid is a blackguard boy
      That runs his link into your face. 

1. A True Account Of The Birth And Conception Of A Late Famous Poem Call'D The Female Nine
2. Tell Me, Dorinda, Why So Gay
3. Sylvia, Methinks You Are Unfit
4. To An Antiquated Coquette
5. On King William's Happy Deliverance from the Intended Assassination

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