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george rylands - the rape of lock (canto 3, lines 1 - 24) lyrics

close by those meads, for ever crown’d with flow’rs
where thames with pride surveys his rising tow’rs
there stands a structure of majestic frame
which from the neighb’ring hampton takes its name
here britain’s statesmen oft the fall foredoom
of foreign tyrants and of nymphs at home;
here thou, great anna! whom three realms obey
dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea

hither the heroеs and the nymphs resort
to taste awhilе the pleasures of a court;
in various talk th’ instructive hours they pass’d
who gave the ball, or paid the visit last;
one speaks the glory of the british queen
and one describes a charming indian screen;
a third interprets motions, looks, and eyes;
at ev’ry word a reputation dies
snuff, or the fan, supply each pause of chat
with singing, laughing, ogling, and all that

meanwhile, declining from the noon of day
the sun obliquely shoots his burning ray;
the hungry judges soon the sentence sign
and wretches hang that jury+men may dine;
the merchant from th’ exchange returns in peace
and the long labours of the toilet cease

- george rylands lyrics

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