"To Zelia.

(On her charging the Author with writing too much on Love.)

'Tis true my Muse to love inclines,

And wreaths of Cypria's myrtle twines;

Quits all aspiring, lofty views,

And chaunts what Nature's gifts infuse:

Timid to try the mountain's* height,

Beneath she strays, retir'd from sight,

Careless, culling amorous flowers;

Or quaffing mirth in Bacchus' bowers.