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 Eternal daylight o'er my head: When with the rheum, With cough and ptisick, I consume Into an heap of cinders: then The Ages fled I'll call again,


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"And with a tear compare these last And cold times unto those are past, While Baucis by With her lean lips shall kiss them dry Then will we sit By the fire, foretelling snow and sleet And weather by our aches, grown †Old enough to be our own


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"True Calendar [                     ] Is for to know what change is near, Then to assuage The gripings in the chine by age, I'll call my young Iülus to sing such a song I made upon my mistress' breast; Or such a blush at such a feast.


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"Then shall he read my Lily fine Entomb'd within a crystal shrine: My Primrose next: A piece then of a higher text; For to beget