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Perch la vita breve	A
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IN PRAISE OF LAURA'S EYES THE DIFFICULTY OF HIS THEME	B
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Since human life is frail	C
And genius trembles at the lofty theme	B
I little confidence in either place	D
But let my tender wail	C
There where it ought deserved attention claim	E
That wail which e'en in silence we may trace	D
O beauteous eyes where Love doth nestling stay	F
To you I turn my insufficient lay	F
Unapt to flow but passion's goad I feel	G
And he of you who sings	H
Such courteous habit by the strain is taught	I
That borne on amorous wings	H
He soars above the reach of vulgar thought	I
Exalted thus I venture to reveal	G
What long my cautious heart has labour'd to conceal	G
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Yes well do I perceive	A
To you how wrongful is my scanty praise	J
Yet the strong impulse cannot be withstood	K
That urges since I view'd	L
What fancy to the sight before ne'er gave	A
What ne'er before graced mine or higher lays	J
Bright authors of my sadly pleasing state	M
That you alone conceive me well I know	N
When to your fierce beams I become as snow	N
Your elegant disdain	O
Haply then kindles at my worthless strain	O
Did not this dread create	M
Some mitigation of my bosom's heat	P
Death would be bliss for greater joy 'twould give	A
With them to suffer death without them than to live	A
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If not consum d quite	Q
I the weak object of a flame so strong	R
'Tis not that safety springs from native might	Q
But that some fear restrains	S
Which chills the current circling through my veins	S
Strengthening this heart that it may suffer long	R
O hills O vales O forests floods and fields	T
Ye who have witness'd how my sad life flows	U
Oft have ye heard me call on death for aid	V
Ah state surcharged with woes	U
To stay destroys and flight no succour yields	T
But had not higher dread	W
Withheld some sudden effort I had made	V
To end my sorrows and protracted pains	S
Of which the beauteous cause insensible remains	S
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Why lead me grief astray	F
From my first theme to chant a different lay	F
Let me proceed where pleasure may invite	Q
'Tis not of you I 'plain	O
O eyes beyond compare serenely bright	Q
Nor yet of him who binds me in his chain	O
Ye clearly can behold the hues that Love	A
Scatters ofttime on my dejected face	D
And fancy may his inward workings trace	D
There where whole nights and days	J
He rules with power derived from your bright rays	J
What rapture would ye prove	A
If you dear lights upon yourselves could gaze	J
But frequent as you bend your beams on me	X
What influence you possess you in another see	X
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Oh if to you were known	O
That beauty which I sing immense divine	O
As unto him on whom its glories shine	O
The heart had then o'erflown	O
With joy unbounded such as is denied	Y
Unto that nature which its acts doth guide	Y
How happy is the soul for you that sighs	Z
Celestial lights which lend a charm to life	A
And make me bless what else I should not prize	Z
Ah why so seldom why	A2
Afford what ne'er can cause satiety	Y
More often to your sight	Y
Why not bring Love who holds me constant strife	A
And why so soon of joys despoil me quite	Y
Which ever and anon my tranced soul delight	Y
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Yes 'debted to your grace	D
Frequent I feel throughout my inmost soul	B2
Unwonted floods of sweetest rapture roll	B2
Relieving so the mind	Y
That all oppressive thoughts are left behind	Y
And of a thousand only one has place	D
For which alone this life is dear to me	X
Oh might the blessing of duration prove	A
Not equall'd then could my condition be	X
But this would haply move	A
In others envy in myself vain pride	Y
That pain should be allied	Y
To pleasure is alas decreed above	A
Then stifling all the ardour of desire	C2
Homeward I turn my thoughts and in myself retire	D2
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So sweetly shines reveal'd	Y
The amorous thought within your soul which dwells	E2
That other joys it from my heart expels	E2
Hence I aspire to frame	E
Lays whereon Hope may build a deathless name	E
When in the tomb my dust shall lie conceal'd	Y
At your approach anguish and sorrow fly	A2
These as your beams retire again draw nigh	A2
Yet outward acts their influence ne'er betray	F
For doting memory	X
Dwells on the past and chases them away	F
Whatever then of worth	F2
My genius ripens owes to you its birth	F2
To you all honour and all praise is due	Y
Myself a barren soil and cultured but by you	Y
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Thy strains O song appease me not but fire	C2
Chanting a theme that wings my wild desire	C2
Trust me thou shalt ere long a sister song acquire	C2
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NOTT	Y
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Since mortal life is frail	C
And my mind shrinks from lofty themes deterr'd	Y
But small the trust which I in either feel	G
Yet hope I that my wail	C
Which vainly I in silence would conceal	G
Shall where I wish where most it ought be heard	Y
Beautiful eyes wherein Love makes his nest	Y
To you my song its feeble descant turns	E2
Slow of itself but now by passion spurr'd	Y
Who sings of you is blest	Y
And from his theme such courteous habit learns	E2
That borne on wings of love	A
Proudly he soars each viler thought above	A
Encouraged thus what long my harass'd heart	Y
Has kept conceal'd I venture to impart	Y
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Yet do I know full well	G2
How much my praise must wrongful prove to you	Y
But how the great desire can I oppose	E2
Which ever in me grows	E2
Since what surpasses thought 'twas mine to view	Y
Though that nor others' wit nor mine can tell	G2
Eyes guilty authors of my cherish'd pain	O
That you alone can judge me well I know	O
When from your burning beams I melt like snow	O
Haply your sweet disdain	O
Offence in my unworthiness may see	X
Ah were there not such fear	H2
To calm the heat with which I kindle near	H2
'Twere bliss to die for better far to me	X
Were death with them than life without could be	X
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If yet not wasted quite	Y
So frail a thing before so fierce a flame	E
'Tis not from my own strength that safety came	E
But that some fear gives might	Y
Freezing the warm blood coursing through its veins	E2
To my poor heart better to bear the strife	A
O valleys hills O forests floods and plains	E2
Witnesses of my melancholy life	A
For death how often have ye heard me pray	F
Ah miserable fate	Y
Where flight avails not though 'tis death to stay	F
But if a dread more great	Y
Restrain'd me not despair would find a way	F
Speedy and short my lingering pains to close	E2
Hers then the crime who still no mercy shows	E2
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Why thus astray O grief	A
Lead me to speak what I would leave unsaid	Y
Leave me where pleasure me impels to tread	Y
Not now my song complains	E2
Of you sweet eyes serene beyond belief	A
Nor yet of him who binds me in such chains	E2
Right well may you observe the varying hues	E2
Which o'er my visage oft the tyrant strews	E2
And thence may guess what war within he makes	E2
Where night and day he reigns	E2
Strong in the power which from your light he takes	E2
Bless d ye were as bright	Y
Save that from you is barr'd your own dear sight	Y
Yet often as to me those orbs you turn	O
What they to others are you well may learn	O
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If as to us who gaze	E2
Were known to you the charms incredible	I2
And heavenly of which I sing the praise	E2
No measured joy would swell	G2
Your heart and haply therefore 'tis denied	Y
Unto the power which doth their motions guide	Y
Happy the soul for you which breathes the sigh	A2
Best lights of heaven for whom I grateful bless	E2
This life which has for me no other joy	J2
Alas so seldom why	A2
Give me what I can ne'er too much possess	E2
Why not more often see	E2
The ceaseless havoc which love makes of me	E2
And why that bliss so quickly from me steal	G
From time to time which my rapt senses feel	G
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Yes thanks great thanks to you	Y
From time to time I feel through all my soul	B2
A sweetness so unusual and new	Y
That every marring care	K2
And gloomy vision thence begins to roll	B2
So that from all one only thought is there	K2
That that alone consoles me life to bear	K2
And could but this my joy endure awhile	L2
Nought earthly could methinks then match my state	Y
Yet such great honour might	Y
Envy in others pride in me excite	Y
Thus still it seems the fate	Y
Of man that tears should chase his transient smile	L2
And checking thus my burning wishes I	A2
Back to myself return to muse and sigh	A2
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The amorous anxious thought	Y
Which reigns within you flashes so on me	E2
That from my heart it draws all other joy	J2
Whence works and words so wrought	Y
Find scope and issue that I hope to be	E2
Immortal made although all flesh must die	A2
At your approach ennui and anguish fly	A2
With your departure they return again	O
But memory on the past which doting dwells	E2
Denies them entrance then	O
So that no outward act their influence tells	E2
Thus if in me is nurst	A2
Any good fruit from you the seed came first	A2
To you if such appear the praise is due	A2
Barren myself till fertilized by you	A2
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Thy strains appease me not O song	R
But rather fire me still that theme to sing	M2
Where centre all my thoughts therefore ere long	R
A sister ode to join thee will I bring	M2
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MACGREGOR	C2