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 KATHERINE PHILIPS

First make the sun in private shine

And bid the world adieu, That so he may his beams confine

In compliment to you. But if of that you do despair,

Think how you did amiss To strive to fix her beams which are

More bright and large than his.

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��THOMAS TRAHERNE 410 News

fEWS from a foreign country came As if my treasure and my wealth lay there; So much it did my heart inflame, 'Twas wont to call my Soul into mine ear, Which thither went to meet The approaching sweet, And on the threshold stood To entertain the unknown Good.

It hover'd there As if 'twould leave mine ear, And was so eager to embrace

The joyful tidings as they came, 'Twould almost leave its dwelling-place To enteitain that same.

As if the tidings were the things, My very joys themselves, my foreign treasure

Or else did bear them on their wings With so much joy they came, with so much pleasure.

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