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The Merchant, to Secure His Treasure
by Matthew Prior

The Hind and the Panther Transversed to the Story of the Country and City Mouse (1687), Poems on Several Occasions (1707), Collected Poems (1716), Alma or the Progress of the Mind (1718), A New Miscellany of Original Poems by Mr Prior, Mr Pope etc. (1720).


The Merchant, to Secure His Treasure
by Matthew Prior

The merchant, to secure his treasure,
Conveys it in a borrowed name:
Euphelia serves to grace my measure,
But Cloe is my real flame.

My softest verse, my darling lyre
Upon Euphelia's toilet lay -
When Cloe noted her desire
That I should sing, that I should play.

My lyre I tune, my voice I raise,
But with my numbers mix my sighs;
And whilst I sing Euphelia's praise,
I fix my soul on Cloe's eyes.

Fair Cloe blushed; Euphelia frowned:
I sung, and gazed; I played, and trembled:
And Venus to the Loves around
Remarked how ill we all dissembled.


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