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Fair Princesse of the spacious air	A
That hast vouchsaf'd acquaintance here	B
With us are quarter'd below stairs	C
That can reach heav'n with nought but pray'rs	C
Who when our activ'st wings we try	D
Advance a foot into the sky	D
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Bright heir t' th' bird imperial	E
From whose avenging penons fall	F
Thunder and lightning twisted spun	G
Brave cousin german to the Sun	G
That didst forsake thy throne and sphere	H
To be an humble pris'ner here	B
And for a pirch of her soft hand	I
Resign the royal woods' command	I
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How often would'st thou shoot heav'ns ark	J
Then mount thy self into a lark	J
And after our short faint eyes call	F
When now a fly now nought at all	F
Then stoop so swift unto our sence	C
As thou wert sent intelligence	C
	-
Free beauteous slave thy happy feet	K
In silver fetters vervails meet	K
And trample on that noble wrist	L
The gods have kneel'd in vain t' have kist	L
But gaze not bold deceived spye	M
Too much oth' lustre of her eye	M
The Sun thou dost out stare alas	C
Winks at the glory of her face	C
	-
Be safe then in thy velvet helm	N
Her looks are calms that do orewhelm	N
Then the Arabian bird more blest	O
Chafe in the spicery of her breast	O
And loose you in her breath a wind	P
Sow'rs the delicious gales of Inde	P
	-
But now a quill from thine own wing	Q
I pluck thy lofty fate to sing	Q
Whilst we behold the varions fight	P
With mingled pleasure and affright	P
The humbler hinds do fall to pray'r	R
As when an army's seen i' th' air	A
And the prophetick spannels run	G
And howle thy epicedium	N
	-
The heron mounted doth appear	H
On his own Peg'sus a lanceer	H
And seems on earth when he doth hut	P
A proper halberdier on foot	P
Secure i' th' moore about to sup	S
The dogs have beat his quarters up	S
	-
And now he takes the open air	H
Drawes up his wings with tactick care	H
Whilst th' expert falcon swift doth climbe	N
In subtle mazes serpentine	T
And to advantage closely twin'd	P
She gets the upper sky and wind	P
Where she dissembles to invade	P
And lies a pol'tick ambuscade	P
	-
The hedg'd in heron whom the foe	U
Awaits above and dogs below	U
In his fortification lies	C
And makes him ready for surprize	C
When roused with a shrill alarm	N
Was shouted from beneath they arm	N
	-
The falcon charges at first view	V
With her brigade of talons through	V
Whose shoots the wary heron beat	P
With a well counterwheel'd retreat	P
But the bold gen'ral never lost	P
Hath won again her airy post	P
Who wild in this affront now fryes	C
Then gives a volley of her eyes	C
	-
The desp'rate heron now contracts	C
In one design all former facts	C
Noble he is resolv'd to fall	F
His and his en'mies funerall	F
And to be rid of her to dy	P
A publick martyr of the sky	M
	-
When now he turns his last to wreak	W
The palizadoes of his beak	W
The raging foe impatient	P
Wrack'd with revenge and fury rent	P
Swift as the thunderbolt he strikes	C
Too sure upon the stand of pikes	C
There she his naked breast doth hit	P
And on the case of rapiers's split	P
	-
But ev'n in her expiring pangs	C
The heron's pounc'd within her phangs	C
And so above she stoops to rise	C
A trophee and a sacrifice	C
Whilst her own bells in the sad fall	F
Ring out the double funerall	F
	-
Ah victory unhap'ly wonne	T
Weeping and red is set the Sun	T
Whilst the whole field floats in one tear	H
And all the air doth mourning wear	H
Close hooded all thy kindred come	N
To pay their vows upon thy tombe	N
The hobby and the musket too	P
Do march to take their last adieu	P
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The lanner and the lanneret	P
Thy colours bear as banneret	P
The GOSHAWK and her TERCEL rows'd	P
With tears attend thee as new bows'd	P
All these are in their dark array	H
Led by the various herald jay	H
	-
But thy eternal name shall live	X
Whilst quills from ashes fame reprieve	Y
Whilst open stands renown's wide dore	H
And wings are left on which to soar	H
Doctor robbin the prelate pye	M
And the poetick swan shall dye	M
Only to sing thy elegie	H

Richard Lovelace

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