Such a love as merits Heaven,

Heaven's divinest image claims.

LAURA'S ANSWER.

Soon be thy lyre to winds consign'd.

Or hurl'd beneath the raging deep;

For while such strains seduce my mind,

How shall my heart its purpose keep.

Thy artless lays, which artless seem,

With too much fondness I approve;

Oh write no more in such a theme,