CEASE, cease, Aminta, to complain,
Thy languishments give oer,
Why shouldst thou sigh because the swain
Another does adore?
Those charms, fond maid, that vanquishd thee,
Have many a conquest won,
And sure he could not cruel be
And leave em all undone.
The youth a noble temper bears,
Soft and compassionate,
And thou canst only blame thy stars,
That made thee love too late;
Yet had their influence all been kind
They had not crossd my fate,
The tenderest hours must have an end,
And passion has its date.
The softest love grows cold and shy,
The face so late adord
Now unregarded passes by,
Or grows at last abhorrd;
All things in Nature fickle prove,
See how they glide away;
Think so in time thy hopeless love
Will die, as flowers decay.
