Song for a Serenade, pp.17-18.

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To the Tune of, The Broom of Cowdenknows

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TEach me, Chloe, how to prove 

My boasted flame sincere: 

‘Tis hard to tell how dear I love, 

And hard to hide my care. 

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Sleep in vain displays her charms, 

To bribe my soul to rest, 

Vainly spreads her silken arms, 

And courts me to her breast. 

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Where can Strephon find repose, 

If Chloe is not there? 

For ah! no peace his bosom knows, 

When absent from the fair. 

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What tho’ Phoebus from on high 

Withholds his chearful ray, 

Thine eyes can well his light supply, 

And give me more than day. 

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