The Reconciling Kiss

Why that sadness on thy brow?

Why that starting crystal tear?

Dearest Polly, let me know,

For thy grief I cannot bear.

Polly with a sigh reply'd,

What need I the cause impart?

Did you not this moment chide?

And you know it breaks my heart

Colin, melting as she spoke,

Caught the fair one in his arms;

O my dear! I that tender look,

Every passion quite disarms:

By this dear relenting kiss,

I'd no anger in my thought;

Come, my love, by this, and this,

Let our quarrel be forgot.

As when sudden stormy rain,

Every drooping flowret spoils;

When the sun shines out again,

All the face of nature smiles:

Polly, so reviv'd and cheer 'd

By her Colin's kind embrace,

Her declining head up-rear'd.

Sweetly smiling in his face.