The rover reclaimed has oft with pride
Dissolved love's silken chains,
The wanton Deity defied
And scorn'd his sharpest pains.

But from thy form, resistless, stream
Such charms as must control;
In thee the fairest features
Beam the noblest, brightest soul.

Pleas'd in thy converse all the day,
Life's sand unheeded runs;
With thee I'll hail the rising ray
And talk down summer suns.

Our loves congenial, still the same,
With equal force shall shine;
No cloy'd desires can damp the flame
Which friendship will refine.