Seest thou that
unfrequented
cave ?
Marvell - Poems
Which, then (perhaps) rebounding, may
Echo beyond the Mexique Bay. "
Thus sung they, in the English boat,
A holy and a cheerful note.
And all the way, to guide their chime,
With falling oars they kept the time.
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OF MABVELL. 41
CLORINDA AND DAMON.
OLORINDA.
Damon, come drive thy flocks this way.
DAMON.
No : 'tis too late they went astray.
CLOBINDA.
I have a grassy scutcheon spied,
Where Flora blazons all her pride ;
The grass I aim to feast thy sheep,
The flowers I for thy temples keep.
DAMON.
Grass withers, and the flowers too fade.
CLORINDA.
Seize the short joys then, ere they vade.
Seest thou that unfrequented cave ?
DAMON.
That den ?
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42 TH£ POEMS
CLORINDA.
Love's shrine.
DAMON.
But virtue's grave.
CLORINDA.
In whose cool bosom we may lie,
Safe from the sun.
DAMON.
Not heaven's eye.
CLORINDA.
Near this, a fountain's liquid bell
Tinkles within the concave shell.
DAMON.
Might a soul bathe there and be clean,
Or slake its drought ?
CLORINDA.
