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1. The Return.
[I]
Beauty whose soft Magnetick chainsNor time not absence can untie,
Thy power the narrow bounds disdains
Of Nature or Philosophie;
That canst by unconfined Laws,
A motion, though at distance, cause.
II
Drawn by the powerful InfluenceOf thy bright eyes, I back return:
And since I no where can dispence
With flames which do in absence burn,
I rather choose 'twixt them t'expire,
Then languish in a hidden fire.
III
But if thou the insulting prideOf vulgar beauties dost despise,
Who by vain triumphs Deifide
Their votaries do sacrifice,
Then let those flames, whose magick charm
At distance scorch'd, aproch'd, but warm.
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