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Once gods walked among humans,
The splendid Muses and youthful
Inspired and healed us, just like you
And you are to me as if one of the Holy Ones Had sent me forth into life, and the image Of my beloved goes with me,

Strephon
You Gote-herd Gods, that loue the grassie mountaines, You Nimphes that haunt the springs in pleasant vallies, You Satyrs ioyde with free and quiet forests, Vouchsafe your silent eares to playning musique, Which to my woes giues still...

God's sovereignty and goodness
O Lord, our heav'nly King,
Thy name is all divine;
Thy glories round the earth are spread,

Out yonder in the moonlight, wherein God's Acre lies,
Go angels walking to and fro, singing their lullabies
Their radiant wings are folded, and their eyes are bended low,
As they sing among the beds whereon the flowers delight to gr...

You personify God's message
You reflect the King's face
There is nothing in the universe that you are
Everything you want, look for it within yourself—  you are that

In my eyes he matches the gods, that man who sits there facing you—any man whatever—listening from closeby to the sweetness of your voice as you talk, thesweetness of your laughter: yes, that—I swear it— sets the heart to shaking inside my breast,...

The river flows
Like a joyous blue string,
The river starts
Talking to strangers.

A beautiful yet ambivalent mind,
A body that turns into all sorts of animals,
A lively spirit...
You look further than the others,

All the trades flourish
In my world -
For pottery and linen
I will always find place,

The soul has an air
Of joy and sadness,
I am the movement
Of will within it,

The mother of gods,
She dwells in the sky,
As endless and undecipherable
As her numerous names.

Two-spirited,
Long-lived
And powerful,
I have two bodies,