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The Parting.
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The Parting.
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As Men in Groen-land left beheld the SunFrom their Horizon run;
And thought upon the sad half year
Of Cold and Darkness they must suffer there:
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So on my parting Mistress did I look,With such swoln eyes my farewel took;
Ah, my fair Star! said I;
Ah those blest Lands to which bright Thou dost fly!
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In vain the Men of Learning comfort me;And say I'm in a warm degree;
Say what they please; I say and swear
'Tis beyond eighty at least, if you're not here.
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It is, it is; I tremble with the Frost,And know that I the Day have lost;
And those wild things which Men they call,
I find to be but Bears or Foxes all.
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Return, return, gay Planet of mine East,Of all that shines Thou much the Best!
And as thou now descend'st to Sea;
More fair and fresh rise up from thence to Me.
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Thou, who in many a Propriety,So truly art the Sun to Me,
Adde one more likeness, which I'm sure you can,
And let Me and my Sun beget a Man.
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