Till love usurp’d dominion there:

Then oft its cares employ’d her tongue,

And thus the alter’d Mira sung.

AIR.

In youth, gay season of delight!

How sweetly glide the hours along;

Joy, mirth, and innocence unite,

To prompt the care-untainted song.

Yet e’en in youth a danger lies,

For then the tend’rest passions move,