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some valley low and lone, Where I was the only one Of the human dwellers there, Would I dream away my care: I'd forget how in the world Snakes lay amid roses curl'd,   I'd forget my once distress For young Love's insidiousness. False foes, and yet falser friends, Seeming but for their own ends; Pleasures known but by their wings, Yet remember'd by their stings; Gold's decrease, and health's decay, I will fly like these away,