That e’en with all the dog-days heat
The sultry painting now appears to glow?
XVI.
Beneath some oak’s projecting shade,
Where the shot rays scarce passage find,
See many a rustick youth and maid
In languid attitudes reclin’d----
Mark! with features all relenting,
160 And with down-cast eyes consenting,
How each nymph listens to the amorous tale;