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Songs and Their Settings: Silvia
By William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
From ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’
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That all our swains commend her?
Holy, fair, and wise as free:
The heaven such grace did lend her,
That she might admirèd be.
For beauty lives with kindness.—
Love doth to her eyes repair,
To help him of his blindness;
And being helped, inhabits there.
That Silvia is excelling;
She excels each mortal thing
Upon the dull earth dwelling:
To her let us garlands bring.