, pride of Lammas Fair;
Who took her lover for his sparkling eyes,
Expressions warm, and love-inspiring lies:
Compassion first assail’d her gentle heart,
For all his suffering, all his bosom’s smart:
“And then his prayers! they would a savage move,
And win the coldest of the sex to love:” -
But ah! too soon his looks success declared,
Too late her loss the marriage-rite repair’d;
The faithless flatterer then his vows forgot,