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I
Silence
coeval with Eternity;
Thou wert, ere Nature's-self began to be,'Twas one vast Nothing, all, and all slept fast in thee

MY faint spirit was sitting in the light Of thy looks, my love; It panted for thee like the hind at noon For the brooks, my love
Thy barb, whose hoofs outspeed the tempest's flight, Bore thee far from me; My heart, for my weak feet were weary...

'—-Quis
Tam patiens urbis, tam ferreus ut teneat se
' ~ Juv
Though grief and fondness in my breast rebel,

Women ben full of Ragerie,
Yet swinken not sans secresie
Thilke Moral shall ye understond,
From Schoole-boy's Tale of fayre Irelond:

Fain would my Muse the flow'ry Treasures sing,
And humble glories of the youthful Spring;
Where opening Roses breathing sweets diffuse,
And soft Carnations show'r their balmy dews;

Wandering from the parent bough, Little, trembling leaf, Whither goest thou
"From the beech, where I was born, By the north wind was I torn
Him I follow in his flight, Over mountain, over vale, From the forest to the plain, Up the h...

I saw the Death, and she was
By quiet entrance at my own home,
I saw the doors were opened in my tomb,
And there, and there my hope was a-flittingI'll die, and traces of my

Let 'em Censure: what care I
The Herd of Criticks I defie
Let the Wretches know,
I

I
In ev'ry Town, where Thamis rolls his Tyde,
A narrow pass there is, with Houses low;
Where ever and anon, the Stream is ey'd,

Parson, these things in thy
Are better than the Bishop's blessing
A Wife that makes conserves; a
That carries double when there's need:

A dark unfathomed
Of interminable pride -A mystery, and a dream,
Should my early life seem;
I say that dream was