Free every thought, each action unconfin’d,
And light those fetters which no rivets bind.
There in each grove, each sloping bank along,
And flow’rs and shrubs and odorous herbs among,
Each shepherd clasp’d, with undisguis’d delight,
His yielding fair one,—in the Captain’s sight;
Each yielding fair, as chance or fancy led,
Preferr’d new lovers to her sylvan bed.[[176]]
Learn hence, each nymph, whose free aspiring mind