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LAURA SINGS.
If Love her beauteous eyes to earth incline, / And all her soul concentring in a sigh, / Then breathe it in her voice of melody, / Floating clear, soft, angelical, divine; / My heart, forth-stolen so gently, I resign, / And, all my hopes and wishes changed, I cry, -- / "Oh, may my last breath pass thus blissfully, / If Heaven so sweet a death for me design! " / But the rapt sense, by such enchantment bound, / And the strong will, thus listening to possess / Heaven's joys on earth, my spirit's flight delay.