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Preludes	A
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I The Daughter of Eve	B
The woman's gentle mood o'erstept	C
Withers my love that lightly scans	D
The rest and does in her accept	C
All her own faults but none of man's	D
As man I cannot judge her ill	E
Or honour her fair station less	F
Who with a woman's errors still	E
Preserves a woman's gentleness	G
For thus I think if one I see	H
Who disappoints my high desire	I
How admirable would she be	H
Could she but know how I admire	J
Or fail she though from blemish clear	K
To charm I call it my defect	C
And so my thought with reverent fear	K
To err by doltish disrespect	C
Imputes love's great regard and says	L
Though unapparent 'tis to me	H
Be sure this Queen some other sways	M
With well perceiv'd supremacy	H
Behold the worst Light from above	N
On the blank ruin writes Forbear	K
Her first crime was unguarded love	N
And all the rest perhaps despair	K
Discrown'd dejected but not lost	C
O sad one with no more a name	O
Or place in all the honour'd host	C
Of maiden and of matron fame	O
Grieve on but if thou grievest right	C
'Tis not that these abhor thy state	C
Nor would'st thou lower the least the height	C
Which makes thy casting down so great	C
Good is thy lot in its degree	K
For hearts that verily repent	C
Are burden'd with impunity	K
And comforted by chastisement	K
Sweet patience sanctify thy woes	P
And doubt not but our God is just	K
Albeit unscathed thy traitor goes	P
And thou art stricken to the dust	K
That penalty's the best to bear	K
Which follows soonest on the sin	Q
And guilt's a game where losers fare	K
Better than those who seem to win	Q
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II Aurea Dicta	K
'Tis truth although this truth's a star	K
Too deep enskied for all to see	K
As poets of grammar lovers are	K
The fountains of morality	K
Child would you shun the vulgar doom	R
In love disgust in death despair	K
Know death must come and love must come	S
And so for each your soul prepare	K
Who pleasure follows pleasure slays	K
God's wrath upon himself he wreaks	K
But all delights rejoice his days	K
Who takes with thanks and never seeks	K
The wrong is made and measured by	T
The right's inverted dignity	K
Change love to shame as love is high	T
So low in hell your bed shall be	K
How easy to keep free from sin	Q
How hard that freedom to recall	U
For dreadful truth it is that men	V
Forget the heavens from which they fall	U
Lest sacred love your soul ensnare	K
With pious fancy still infer	K
How loving and how lovely fair	K
Must He be who has fashion'd her	K
Become whatever good you see	K
Nor sigh if forthwith fades from view	W
The grace of which you may not be	K
The subject and spectator too	W
Love's perfect blossom only blows	K
Where noble manners veil defect	K
Angels may be familiar those	K
Who err each other must respect	K
Love blabb'd of is a great decline	X
A careless word unsanctions sense	K
But he who casts Heaven's truth to swine	X
Consummates all incontinence	K
Not to unveil before the gaze	K
Of an imperfect sympathy	K
In aught we are is the sweet praise	K
And the main sum of modesty	K
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The Dance	K
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I	T
My memory of Heaven awakes	K
She's not of the earth although her light	K
As lantern'd by her body makes	K
A piece of it past bearing bright	K
So innocently proud and fair	K
She is that Wisdom sings for glee	K
And Folly dies breathing one air	K
With such a bright cheek'd chastity	K
And though her charms are a strong law	Y
Compelling all men to admire	K
They go so clad with lovely awe	Z
None but the noble dares desire	K
He who would seek to make her his	K
Will comprehend that souls of grace	K
Own sweet repulsion and that 'tis	K
The quality of their embrace	K
To be like the majestic reach	A2
Of coupled suns that from afar	K
Mingle their mutual spheres while each	A2
Circles the twin obsequious star	K
And in the warmth of hand to hand	K
Of heart to heart he'll vow to note	K
And reverently understand	K
How the two spirits shine remote	K
And ne'er to numb fine honour's nerve	B2
Nor let sweet awe in passion melt	K
Nor fail by courtesies to observe	B2
The space which makes attraction felt	K
Nor cease to guard like life the sense	K
Which tells him that the embrace of love	N
Is o'er a gulf of difference	K
Love cannot sound nor death remove	C2
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	-
II	T
This learn'd I watching where she danced	K
Native to melody and light	K
And now and then toward me glanced	K
Pleased as I hoped to please my sight	K
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III	T
Ah love to speak was impotent	K
Till music did a tongue confer	K
And I ne'er knew what music meant	K
Until I danced to it with her	K
Too proud of the sustaining power	K
Of my till then unblemish'd joy	D2
My passion for reproof that hour	K
Tasted mortality's alloy	D2
And bore me down an eddying gulf	E2
I wish'd the world might run to wreck	F2
So I but once might fling myself	G2
Obliviously about her neck	F2
I press'd her hand by will or chance	K
I know not but I saw the rays	K
Withdrawn which did till then enhance	K
Her fairness with its thanks for praise	K
I knew my spirit's vague offence	K
Was patent to the dreaming eye	T
And heavenly tact of innocence	K
And did for fear my fear defy	T
And ask'd her for the next dance Yes	K
No had not fall'n with half the force	K
She was fulfill'd with gentleness	K
And I with measureless remorse	K
And ere I slept on bended knee	K
I own'd myself with many a tear	K
Unseasonable disorderly	K
And a deranger of love's sphere	K
Gave thanks that when we stumble and fall	U
We hurt ourselves and not the truth	H2
And rising found its brightness all	U
The brighter through the tears of ruth	H2
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IV	T
Nor was my hope that night made less	K
Though order'd humbled and reproved	K
Her farewell did her heart express	K
As much but not with anger moved	K
My trouble had my soul betray'd	K
And in the night of my despair	K
My love a flower of noon afraid	K
Divulged its fulness unaware	K
I saw she saw and O sweet Heaven	I2
Could my glad mind have credited	K
That influence had to me been given	I2
To affect her so I should have said	K
That though she from herself conceal'd	K
Love's felt delight and fancied harm	J2
They made her face the jousting field	K
Of joy and beautiful alarm	J2

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