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Rh With roses Cytheran

Sweet martyrdoms twine,

Of the blinded ring join'd

To deliriums of wine.

And hopes so fallacious,

Bright castles that shone

In the air as upraised,

By the winds overthrown.

With the Muses to crown

The grave tasks, that are born

Of wisdom, with laurel

Their sons to adorn:

Here a thousand retreats

Of charm'd leafy arcade,

That to slumber beguile,

In freshness and shade:

There beyond in the bowers

Of sweet Cnidus arise,

As of fear and desire,

Half mingled, the sighs:

There the broad river spreads,

Showing soft its delights,

To oblivion of all

Whose crystal invites;