282 AMATORY SONGS. I. MAN AND WOMAN. FROM THE ORATORIO OF CREATION. In native worth and honour clad, A man, The Lord of earth, and nature's king. The large and arched front sublime The breath and image of his God. With fondness leans upon his breast A woman, fair and graceful spouse. II. WOMAN. 1. WHO, in this world of care and strife, 2 "TIS WOMAN. Who, by a thousand tender wiles, 3 "TIS WOMAN. From whom do all our pleasures flow; 4 Who, of a nature more refin'd, Doth soften man's rude stubborn mind, 5 'TIS WOMAN. Who binds us all to one another, By silken bands of father, mother, Of husband, children, sister, brother? "TIS WOMAN. 6 When hours of absence past we meet, 7 "TIS WOMAN. Who, by a word, a touch, a sigh, Can fill the soul with ecstacy? "TIS WOMAN. 8 Bid me with mandate stern prepare 9 FOR WOMAN. Guide me to mountains white with ow; E'en there contented I would go WITH WOMAN. 10 Friend and companion is a Wife, BLEST WOMAN. III. LOVE. A GLEE. From The LAY of the LAST MINSTREL. BY WALTER SCOTT, ESQ. COMPOSED BY ATTWOOD. IN peace, Love tunes the Shepherd's reed; In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, IV. TRUE LOVE. FROM THE SAME. TRUE Love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven. It is not Fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind. V. THE BREATH OF LOVE. From the Oratorio of Joseph and his Brethren. BY JAMES MILLER. WHAT'S Sweeter than the new-blown rose, VI. LOVE. From The Play of The Mysterious Bride, BY LUMLEY ST. GEORGE SKEFFINGTON, ESQ. 1 BEWARE the fond delusion, |