COMUS.

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Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot,

Which men call earth.

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A thousand fantasies

Begin to throng into my memory,

Of calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses.

Was I deceived,

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or did a sable cloud

Turn forth her silver lining on the night?

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Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould
Breathe such divine, enchanting ravishment?

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How sweetly did they float upon the wings
Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night,
At every fall smoothing the raven down
Of darkness till it smiled.

Who, as

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And lap it in Elysium.

they sung, would take the prisoned soul

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Virtue could see to do what virtue would

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By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk.

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He that has light within his own clear breast
May sit i' th' centre and enjoy bright day;
But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts
Benighted walks under the mid-day sun.

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So dear to heaven is saintly chastity,
That when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liveried angels lackey her.

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How charming is divine philosophy!

Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose;
But musical as is Apollo's lute,8

And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets,
Where no crude surfeit reigns.

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I was all ear,

And took in strains that might create a soul
Under the ribs of Death.

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What need a vermeil-tinctured lip for that,
Love darting eyes, or tresses like the morn?

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Enjoy your dear wit, and gay rhetoric,

That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence.

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He knew

Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.

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Without the meed of some melodious tear.

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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind)

To scorn

delights and live laborious days;

But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,
And think to burst out into sudden blaze,
Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears,
And slits the thin-spun life.

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Built in the eclipse and rigged with curses dark.

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So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed,
And yet anon repairs his drooping head,
And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore
Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.

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To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new.

IL PENSEROSO.

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The gay motes that people the sun-beams.

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And looks commercing with the skies,
Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.

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Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!

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Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing

Such notes, as, warbled to the string,

Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.

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Where more is meant than meets the ear.

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And storied windows richly dight,

Casting a dim, religious light.

L' ALLEGRO.

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Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee
Jest, and youthful Jollity,

Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles,
Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles.

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Sport that wrinkled Care derides,
And Laughter holding both his sides.
Come, and trip it as you go,
On the light, fantastic toe.

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And every shepherd tells his tale
Under the hawthorn in the dale.

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Where perhaps some beauty lies,
The Cynosure of neighboring eyes.

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Herbs, and other country messes,
Which the neat-handed Phyllis dresses.

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Towered cities please us then,
And the busy hum of men.

Rain influence.

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Ladies, whose bright eyes