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Your breath, which Nature the example meant,From whence our early Blossomes take their scent;Teaching our Infant-Flow'rs how to excell(Ere strong upon their stalks) in fragrant smell:Your voyce, which can allure, and charme the bestMost gawdy-feather'd Chaunter of the East,To dwell about your Palace all the Spring,And still preserve him silent whilst you sing.Rise then! for I have heard Apollo sweare,By that first lustre, which did fill his Spheare;He will not mount, but make eternall Night,Unlesse releev'd, and cherish'd by your Sight:Your sight; which is his warmth, now he is old,His Horses weary, and his Chariot cold.

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