William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.
The IndifferentWilliam Pattison (17061727)
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To catch your fleeting shade you run,
In vain is all your haste, Sir;
But if your feet reverse the race,
The fugitive will urge the chase,
And follow you as fast, Sir.
Some scornful Chloe you pursue,
In hopes to overtake her;
Be sure you ne’er too eager be,
But look upon’t as cold as she,
And seemingly forsake her.
Were coursing round a cock of hay,
While I could ne’er o’er get her;
But, when I found I ran in vain,
Quite tir’d I turn’d me back again,
And, flying from her, met her.