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Wise emblem of our politic world	A
Sage snail within thine own self curl'd	A
Instruct me softly to make haste	B
Whilst these my feet go slowly fast	C
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Compendious snail thou seem'st to me	D
Large Euclid's strict epitome	D
And in each diagram dost fling	E
Thee from the point unto the ring	E
A figure now triangular	F
An oval now and now a square	G
And then a serpentine dost crawl	H
Now a straight line now crook'd now all	H
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Preventing rival of the day	I
Th'art up and openest thy ray	I
And ere the morn cradles the moon	J
Th'art broke into a beauteous noon	J
Then when the sun sups in the deep	K
Thy silver horns ere Cynthia's peep	K
And thou from thine own liquid bed	L
New Phoebus heav'st thy pleasant head	L
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Who shall a name for thee create	M
Deep riddle of mysterious state	M
Bold Nature that gives common birth	N
To all products of seas and earth	N
Of thee as earthquakes is afraid	O
Nor will thy dire deliv'ry aid	O
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Thou thine own daughter then and sire	F
That son and mother art entire	F
That big still with thy self dost go	P
And liv'st an aged embryo	P
That like the cubs of India	Q
Thou from thyself a while dost play	I
But frighted with a dog or gun	R
In thine own belly thou dost run	R
And as thy house was thine own womb	S
So thine own womb concludes thy tomb	S
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But now I must analyz'd king	E
Thy economic virtues sing	E
Thou great stay'd husband still within	T
Thou thee that's thine dost discipline	R
And when thou art to progress bent	U
Thou mov'st thy self and tenement	V
As warlike Scythians travell'd you	W
Remove your men and city too	W
Then after a sad dearth and rain	X
Thou scatterest thy silver train	X
And when the trees grow nak'd and old	Y
Thou clothest them with cloth of gold	Y
Which from thy bowels thou dost spin	T
And draw from the rich mines within	T
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Now hast thou chang'd thee saint and made	O
Thy self a fane that's cupola'd	O
And in thy wreathed cloister thou	Z
Walkest thine own grey friar too	O
Strict and lock'd up th'art hood all o'er	F
And ne'er eliminat'st thy door	A2
On salads thou dost feed severe	B2
And 'stead of beads thou dropp'st a tear	G
And when to rest each calls the bell	C2
Thou sleep'st within thy marble cell	C2
Where in dark contemplation plac'd	O
The sweets of nature thou dost taste	O
Who now with time thy days resolve	D2
And in a jelly thee dissolve	D2
Like a shot star which doth repair	G
Upward and rarify the air	G

Richard Lovelace

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