Of singing Delia, Nature’s joy;

Thou bad’st me change the pastoral scene

Forget my Crook; with haughty mien

To raise the iron Spear of War,

Victim of Grief and deep Despair:

Say, must I all my joys forego

And still maintain this outward show?

Say, shall this breast that’s pained to feel

Be ever clad in horrid steel?

Nor swell with other joys than those