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Elizium.

To the Duchesse of

Bvckingham.

 MADAM,SO sleeps the Anchoret on his cheap bed,(whose sleep wants only length to prove him dead)As I last night, whom the swift wings of Thought,Convey'd to see what our bold faith had taught;Elizium, where restored formes nere fade;Where growth can need no seeds, nor light a shade;The joyes which in our flesh, through fraile expenceOf strentgh, through age, were lost t'our injur'd sense,Wee there doe meet agen; and those we tasteAnew, which though devour'd, yet ever last:

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