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Title: Moores Fables for the female sex. : Embellished with engravings
Year: 1806 (1800s)
Authors: Moore, Edward, 1712-1757 Brooke, Henry, 1703?-1783
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Publisher: London : Printed for Scatchard (i.e. Scatcherd) & Letterman ... Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, and H.D. Symonds ... : (Printed by C. Whittingham)

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es her waning face.All-beauteous, from her late disgrace;And suns, that mourn approachmg night,Refulgent rise, with new-born light. In vain may death and time subdue,While nature mints iier race anew,And holds some vital spark apart,Like virtue, hid in evry heart;Tis hence, reviving warmth is seen,To clothe a naked world in green; 90 No longer barrd by winters cold,Again the gates of life unfold;Again each insect tries his wing,And lifts fresh pinions on the spring;Again from evry latent rootThe bladed stem and tendril shoot,Exhaling incense to the skies,Again to perish, and to rise. And must weak WOMAN then disownThe change to which a world is prone ?In one meridian brightness shine,And neer like evning suns decline ?Resolvd and firm alone ?—Is thisWhat we demand of woman?—Yes! But should the spark of vestal fire,In some unguarded hour expire;Or should the nightly thief invadeHesperias chaste and sacred shade,Of all the blooming spoils possessd.The dragon, honour, charmd to rest,
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Wfated^- JtcrfT JciJp^ JrVl ptUff07 lmJ„n lhM,,h,J. I(y .fcMrhrrd i-L,tUn,win^i>^raru> Lan^. 91 Shall virtues flame no more return?No more with virgin splendour burn rNo more the ravagd garden blowWith springs succeeding blossom ?—No!Pity may mourn, but not restore,And WOMAN falls—to rise no more. Within this sublunarj^ sphere,A country lies—no matter where;The clime may readily be found,By all who tread poetic ground;A stream, calld life, across it glides,And equally the land divides;And here, of vice the province lies,And there, the hills of virtue rise. Upon a mountains airy stand,W^hose summit lookd to either land,An ancient pair their dwelling chose.As well for prospect as repose;For mutual faith they long were famd.And temprance, and religion, namd. 92 A numrous progeny divineConfessd the honours of their hue;But in a Httle daughter fairWas centerd more than half their care;For lieavn, to gratulate her birth,Gave signs of future joy to earth.White was the robe this

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