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Preludes	A
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I The Comparison	B
Where she succeeds with cloudless brow	C
In common and in holy course	D
He fails in spite of prayer and vow	C
And agonies of faith and force	D
Or if his suit with Heaven prevails	E
To righteous life his virtuous deeds	F
Lack beauty virtue's badge she fails	E
More graciously than he succeeds	F
Her spirit compact of gentleness	G
If Heaven postpones or grants her pray'r	H
Conceives no pride in its success	I
And in its failure no despair	J
But his enamour'd of its hurt	K
Baffled blasphemes or not denied	L
Crows from the dunghill of desert	K
And wags its ugly wings for pride	L
He's never young nor ripe she grows	M
More infantine auroral mild	N
And still the more she lives and knows	M
The lovelier she's express'd a child	N
Say that she wants the will of man	O
To conquer fame not check'd by cross	P
Nor moved when others bless or ban	O
She wants but what to have were loss	P
Or say she wants the patient brain	Q
To track shy truth her facile wit	R
At that which he hunts down with pain	Q
Flies straight and does exactly hit	R
Were she but half of what she is	S
He twice himself mere love alone	T
Her special crown as truth is his	S
Gives title to the worthier throne	T
For love is substance truth the form	U
Truth without love were less than nought	R
But blindest love is sweet and warm	U
And full of truth not shaped by thought	R
And therefore in herself she stands	V
Adorn'd with undeficient grace	W
Her happy virtues taking hands	V
Each smiling in another's face	W
So dancing round the Tree of Life	X
They make an Eden in her breast	R
While his disjointed and at strife	X
Proud thoughted do not bring him rest	R
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II Love in Tears	Y
If fate Love's dear ambition mar	H
And load his breast with hopeless pain	Q
And seem to blot out sun and star	H
Love won or lost is countless gain	Q
His sorrow boasts a secret bliss	Z
Which sorrow of itself beguiles	Z
And Love in tears too noble is	Z
For pity save of Love in smiles	Z
But looking backward through his tears	Z
With vision of maturer scope	A2
How often one dead joy appears	Z
The platform of some better hope	A2
And let us own the sharpest smart	R
Which human patience may endure	B2
Pays light for that which leaves the heart	R
More generous dignified and pure	B2
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III Prospective Faith	C2
They safely walk in darkest ways	Z
Whose youth is lighted from above	D2
Where through the senses' silvery haze	Z
Dawns the veil'd moon of nuptial love	D2
Who is the happy husband He	E2
Who scanning his unwedded life	X
Thanks Heaven with a conscience free	E2
'Twas faithful to his future wife	X
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IV Venus Victrix	Z
Fatal in force yet gentle in will	F2
Defeats from her are tender pacts	Z
For like the kindly lodestone still	F2
She's drawn herself by what she attracts	Z
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The Violets	Z
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I	-
I went not to the Dean's unbid	R
I would not have my mystery	E2
From her so delicately hid	R
The guess of gossips at their tea	E2
A long long week and not once there	J
Had made my spirit sick and faint	R
And lack love foul as love is fair	J
Perverted all things to complaint	R
How vain the world had grown to be	E2
How mean all people and their ways	Z
How ignorant their sympathy	E2
And how impertinent their praise	Z
What they for virtuousness esteem'd	R
How far removed from heavenly right	R
What pettiness their trouble seem'd	R
How undelightful their delight	R
To my necessity how strange	G2
The sunshine and the song of birds	Z
How dull the clouds' continual change	G2
How foolishly content the herds	Z
How unaccountable the law	H2
Which bade me sit in blindness here	I2
While she the sun by which I saw	H2
Shed splendour in an idle sphere	J2
And then I kiss'd her stolen glove	D2
And sigh'd to reckon and define	K2
The modes of martyrdom in love	D2
And how far each one might be mine	K2
I thought how love whose vast estate	R
Is earth and air and sun and sea	E2
Encounters oft the beggar's fate	R
Despised on score of poverty	E2
How Heaven inscrutable in this	Z
Lets the gross general make or mar	H
The destiny of love which is	Z
So tender and particular	L2
How nature as unnatural	M2
And contradicting nature's source	Z
Which is but love seems most of all	N2
Well pleased to harry true love's course	Z
How many times it comes to pass	Z
That trifling shades of temperament	R
Affecting only one alas	Z
Not love but love's success prevent	R
How manners often falsely paint	R
The man how passionate respect	R
Hid by itself may bear the taint	R
Of coldness and a dull neglect	R
And how a little outward dust	R
Can a clear merit quite o'ercloud	R
And make her fatally unjust	R
And him desire a darker shroud	R
How senseless opportunity	R
Gives baser men the better chance	Z
How powers adverse else agree	R
To cheat her in her ignorance	Z
How Heaven its very self conspires	Z
With man and nature against love	D2
As pleased to couple cross desires	Z
And cross where they themselves approve	O2
Wretched were life if the end were now	C
But this gives tears to dry despair	J
Faith shall be blest we know not how	C
And love fulfilled we know not where	J
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II	-
While thus I grieved and kiss'd her glove	D2
My man brought in her note to say	Z
Papa had bid her send his love	D2
And would I dine with them next day	Z
They had learn'd and practised Purcell's glee	R
To sing it by to morrow night	R
The Postscript was Her sisters and she	R
Inclosed some violets blue and white	R
She and her sisters found them where	J
I wager'd once no violets grew	P2
So they had won the gloves And there	J
The violets lay two white one blue	P2

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