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Which to determine Love himself declin'd,Lest the neglected should become less kind.Such killing looks; so thick the Arrows fly;That 'tis unsafe to be a stander by.Poets approaching to describe the sight,Are by their Wounds instructed how to write.They with less hazard, might look on and drawThe ruder Combats in Alsatia.And with that Foil of violence and rageSet off the splendour of our Golden Age:Where Love gives Law, Beauty the Scepter sways;And uncompell'd, the happy World obeys.

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