To be about to take, and then command
His daring wish, and only view the hand:
Yes! all was nature; it became a maid
Of gentle soul t' encourage love afraid.—
He, so unlike the confident and bold,
Would fly in mute despair to find her cold:
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The young and tender germ requires the sun
To make it spread; it must be smiled upon.
Thus the kind virgin gentle means devised