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My Mouse.
A Venus seems my Mouse
Come safe ashore from foaming seas,
Which in a small way & at ease
Keeps house.
Come safe ashore from foaming seas,
Which in a small way & at ease
Keeps house.
An Iris seems my Mouse,
Bright bow of that exhausted shower
Which made a world of sweet-herbs flower
And boughs.
Bright bow of that exhausted shower
Which made a world of sweet-herbs flower
And boughs.
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A darling Mouse it is:—
Part hope not likely to take wing,
Part memory, part anything
You please.
Part hope not likely to take wing,
Part memory, part anything
You please.
Venus-cum-Iris Mouse
From shifting tides set safe apart,
In no mere bottle, in my heart
Keep house.
From shifting tides set safe apart,
In no mere bottle, in my heart
Keep house.
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