Lyrics - Haste To The Wedding Rural Felicity by Douglas Jim

Haste to the
Wedding (
Rural
Felicity)
Come haste to the wedding ye friends and ye neighbors,
The lovers their bliss can no longer delay.
Forget all your sorrows your cares and your labors,
And let every heart beat with rapture today.
Come, come one and all, attend to my call,
And revel in pleasures that never can cloy.
Come see rural felicity,
Which love and innocence ever enjoy.
Let
Envy,
Let
Pride,
Let
Hate &
Ambition,
Still
Crowd to, & beat at the breast of the
Great,
To
Such
Wretched
Passions we
Give no admission,
But
Leave them alone to the wise ones of
State,
We
Boast of
No wealth, but
Contentment &
Health,
In mirth & in
Friendship, our moments employ
Come
See &c.
With
Reason we taste of
Each
Heart
Stirring pleasure,
With
Reason we
Drink of the full flowing
Bowl,
Are
Jocund &
Gay,
But 'tis all within measure,
For fatal excess will enslave the free
Soul,
Then
Come at our bidding to this
Happy wedding,
No
Care
Shall obtrude here, our
Bliss to annoy,
Come
See &c.from
Contentment,
Jim
Douglas
Collected from
Eunice
Carew's songbook, 1790filename[
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