Choyce Drollery: Songs and Sonnets / Being a Collection of Divers Excellent Pieces of Poetry, of Several Eminent Authors.

by Unknown

[p. 113.]

A Song.

1. To Arms! to Arms! the Heroes cry,

A glorious Death, or Victory.

Beauty and Love, although combin’d,

And each so powerful alone,

Cannot prevail against a mind

Bound up in resolution.

Tears their weak influence vainly prove,

Nothing the daring breast can move