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Preludes	A
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I Perfect Love rare	B
Most rare is still most noble found	C
Most noble still most incomplete	D
Sad law which leaves King Love uncrown'd	D
In this obscure terrestrial seat	D
With bale more sweet than others' bliss	E
And bliss more wise than others' bale	F
The secrets of the world are his	G
And freedom without let or pale	F
O zealous good O virtuous glee	H
Religious and without alloy	I
O privilege high which none but he	H
Who highly merits can enjoy	I
O Love who art that fabled sun	J
Which all the world with bounty loads	K
Without respect of realms save one	J
And gilds with double lustre Rhodes	K
A day of whose delicious life	L
Though full of terrors full of tears	M
Is better than of other life	L
A hundred thousand million years	N
Thy heavenly splendour magnifies	O
The least commixture of earth's mould	D
Cheapens thyself in thine own eyes	O
And makes the foolish mocker bold	D
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II Love Justified	D
What if my pole star of respect	D
Be dim to others Shall their Nay	P
Presumably their own defect	D
Invalidate my heart's strong Yea	P
And can they rightly me condemn	Q
If I with partial love prefer	R
I am not more unjust to them	Q
But only not unjust to her	R
Leave us alone After awhile	S
This pool of private charity	H
Shall make its continent an isle	S
And roll a world embracing sea	H
This foolish zeal of lip for lip	T
This fond self sanction'd wilful zest	D
Is that elect relationship	T
Which forms and sanctions all the rest	D
This little germ of nuptial love	U
Which springs so simply from the sod	D
The root is as my song shall prove	V
Of all our love to man and God	D
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III Love Serviceable	W
What measure Fate to him shall mete	D
Is not the noble Lover's care	B
He's heart sick with a longing sweet	D
To make her happy as she's fair	B
Oh misery should she him refuse	X
And so her dearest good mistake	Y
His own success he thus pursues	X
With frantic zeal for her sole sake	Y
To lose her were his life to blight	D
Being loss to hers to make her his	G
Except as helping her delight	D
He calls but accidental bliss	E
And holding life as so much pelf	V
To buy her posies learns this lore	Z
He does not rightly love himself	V
Who does not love another more	Z
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IV A Riddle Solved	D
Kind souls you wonder why love you	A2
When you you wonder why love none	J
We love Fool for the good we do	A2
Not that which unto us is done	J
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The Dean	B2
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I	-
The Ladies rose I held the door	Z
And sigh'd as her departing grace	C2
Assured me that she always wore	Z
A heart as happy as her face	C2
And jealous of the winds that blew	A2
I dreaded o'er the tasteless wine	D2
What fortune momently might do	A2
To hurt the hope that she'd be mine	D2
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II	-
Towards my mark the Dean's talk set	D
He praised my Notes on Abury	Z
Read when the Association met	D
At Sarum he was pleased to see	H
I had not stopp'd as some men had	D
At Wrangler and Prize Poet last	D
He hoped the business was not bad	D
I came about then the wine pass'd	D
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III	-
A full glass prefaced my reply	-
I loved his daughter Honor I told	D
My estate and prospects might I try	-
To win her At my words so bold	D
My sick heart sank Then he He gave	V
His glad consent if I could get	D
Her love A dear good Girl she'd have	V
Only three thousand pounds as yet	D
More bye and bye Yes his good will	E2
Should go with me he would not stir	Z
He and my father in old time still	E2
Wish'd I should one day marry her	Z
But God so seldom lets us take	Y
Our chosen pathway when it lies	O
In steps that either mar or make	Y
Or alter others' destinies	F2
That though his blessing and his pray'r	Z
Had help'd should help my suit yet he	H
Left all to me his passive share	Z
Consent and opportunity	H
My chance he hoped was good I'd won	J
Some name already friends and place	C2
Appear'd within my reach but none	J
Her mind and manners would not grace	C2
Girls love to see the men in whom	G2
They invest their vanities admired	D
Besides where goodness is there room	G2
For good to work will be desired	D
'Twas so with one now pass'd away	P
And what she was at twenty two	A2
Honor was now and he might say	P
Mine was a choice I could not rue	A2
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IV	V
He ceased and gave his hand He had won	J
And all my heart was in my word	D
From me the affection of a son	J
Whichever fortune Heaven conferr'd	D
Well well would I take more wine Then go	H2
To her she makes tea on the lawn	I2
These fine warm afternoons And so	H2
We went whither my soul was drawn	I2
And her light hearted ignorance	J2
Of interest in our discourse	K2
Fill'd me with love and seem'd to enhance	L2
Her beauty with pathetic force	K2
As through the flowery mazes sweet	D
Fronting the wind that flutter'd blythe	M2
And loved her shape and kiss'd her feet	D
Shown to their insteps proud and lithe	M2
She approach'd all mildness and young trust	D
And ever her chaste and noble air	Z
Gave to love's feast its choicest gust	D
A vague faint augury of despair	Z

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