| MUST I then see, alas! eternal night | |
| Sitting upon those fairest eyes, | |
| And closing all those beams, which once did rise | |
| So radiant and bright, | |
| That light and heat in them to us did prove | 5 |
| Knowledge and Love? | |
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| Oh, if you did delight no more to stay | |
| Upon this low and earthly stage, | |
| But rather chose an endless heritage, | |
| Tell us at least, we pray, | 10 |
| Where all the beauties that those ashes ow'd | |
| Are now bestow'd? | |
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| Doth the Sun now his light with yours renew? | |
| Have Waves the curling of your hair? | |
| Did you restore unto the Sky and Air, | 15 |
| The red, and white, and blew? | |
| Have you vouchsafed to flowers since your death | |
| That sweetest breath? | |
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| Had not Heav'ns Lights else in their houses slept, | |
| Or to some private life retir'd? | 20 |
| Must not the Sky and Air have else conspir'd, | |
| And in their Regions wept? | |
| Must not each flower else the earth could breed | |
| Have been a weed? | |
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| But thus enrich'd may we not yield some cause | 25 |
| Why they themselves lament no more? | |
| That must have changed the course they held before, | |
| And broke their proper Laws, | |
| Had not your beauties giv'n this second birth | |
| To Heaven and Earth? | 30 |
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| Tell us, for Oracles must still ascend, | |
| For those that crave them at your tomb: | |
| Tell us, where are those beauties now become, | |
| And what they now intend: | |
| Tell us, alas, that cannot tell our grief, | 35 |
| Or hope relief. | |
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