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In Ionia whence sprang old poets' fame	A
From whom that sea did first derive her name	A
The blessed bed whereon the Muses lay	B
Beauty of Greece the pride of Asia	C
Whence Archelaus whom times historify	D
First unto Athens brought philosophy	D
In this fair region on a goodly plain	E
Stretching her bounds unto the bord'ring main	E
The mountain Latmus overlooks the sea	D
Smiling to see the ocean billows play	B
Latmus where young Endymion used to keep	F
His fairest flock of silver fleeced sheep	F
To whom Silvanus often would resort	G
At barley brake to see the Satyrs sport	G
And when rude Pan his tabret list to sound	H
To see the fair Nymphs foot it in a round	H
Under the trees which on this mountain grew	I
As yet the like Arabia never knew	I
For all the pleasures Nature could devise	J
Within this plot she did imparadise	J
And great Diana of her special grace	J
With vestal rites had hallowed all the place	J
Upon this mount there stood a stately grove	D
Whose reaching arms to clip the welkin strove	D
Of tufted cedars and the branching pine	K
Whose bushy tops themselves do so entwine	K
As seem'd when Nature first this work begun	L
She then conspir'd against the piercing sun	L
Under whose covert thus divinely made	M
Ph oe bus' green laurel flourish'd in the shade	M
Fair Venus' myrtle Mars his warlike fir	N
Minerva's olive and the weeping myrrh	N
The patient palm which thrives in spite of hate	O
The poplar to Alcides consecrate	O
Which Nature in such order had disposed	P
And therewithal these goodly walks inclosed	P
As serv'd for hangings and rich tapestry	D
To beautify this stately gallery	D
Embroidering these in curious trails along	Q
The cluster'd grapes the golden citrons hung	R
More glorious than the precious fruit were these	J
Kept by the dragon in Hesperides	J
Or gorgeous arras in rich colours wrought	P
With silk from Afric or from Indy brought	P
Out of this soil sweet bubbling fountains crept	P
As though for joy the senseless stones had wept	P
With straying channels dancing sundry ways	J
With often turns like to a curious maze	J
Which breaking forth the tender grass bedewed	P
Whose silver sand with orient pearl was strewed	P
Shadowed with roses and sweet eglantine	K
Dipping their sprays into this crystalline	K
From which the birds the purple berries pruned	P
And to their loves their small recorders tuned	P
The nightingale wood's herald of the spring	S
The whistling woosel mavis carolling	S
Tuning their trebles to the waters' fall	T
Which made the music more angelical	T
Whilst gentle Zephyr murmuring among	S
Kept time and bare the burthen to the song	S
About whose brims refresh'd with dainty showers	J
Grew amaranthus and sweet gilliflowers	J
The marigold Ph oe bus' beloved friend	P
The moly which from sorcery doth defend	P
Violet carnation balm and cassia	J
Idea's primrose coronet of may	B
Above this grove a gentle fair ascent	P
Which by degrees of milk white marble went	P
Upon the top a paradise was found	P
With which Nature this miracle had crown'd	P
Empal'd with rocks of rarest precious stone	U
Which like the flames of tna brightly shone	U
And served as lanthorns furnished with light	P
To guide the wand'ring passengers by night	P
For which fair Ph oe be sliding from her sphere	V
Used oft times to come and sport her there	W
And from the azure starry painted sky	S
Embalm'd the banks with precious lunary	W
That now her Maenalus she quite forsook	S
And unto Latmus wholly her betook	S
And in this place her pleasure us'd to take	S
And all was for her sweet Endymion's sake	S
Endymion the lovely shepherds' boy	X
Endymion great Ph oe be's only joy	X
Endymion in whose pure shining eyes	J
The naked fairies danced the heydegies	J
The shag hair'd Satyrs' mountain climbing race	J
Have been made tame by gazing in his face	J
For this boy's love the water nymphs have wept	P
Stealing oft times to kiss him whilst he slept	P
And tasting once the nectar of his breath	Y
Surfeit with sweet and languish unto death	Y
And Jove oft times bent to lascivious sport	P
And coming where Endymion did resort	P
Hath courted him inflamed with desire	W
Thinking some nymph was cloth'd in boy's attire	W
And often times the simple rural swains	J
Beholding him in crossing o'er the plains	J
Imagined Apollo from above	D
Put on this shape to win some maiden's love	D
	Z

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Endimion And Phoebe (excerpts) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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