S weet! dazzle not my feeble sight,

A nd strike me not with blindness!

B ehold me mildly from that face

E ven where thou now dost run thy race,

T he sphere where now thou turnest,

H aving, like Phæton changed thy place,

A nd yet hearts only burnest.

R ed in her right cheek, thou dost rise

E xalted after, in her eyes;

G reat glory, there, thou shewest!