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Forget thyself to marble.
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And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.
And join with thee, calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet.
The gay motes that people the sunbeams.
And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure.
Hence vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without father bred!
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy!
Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half-regained Eurydice. These delights, if thou canst give, Mir…
I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray…
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