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Poems and Translations upon Several Occasions [by Mary Monck]
  

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Madrigal.

From Guarini.

Does this Fair Syren from the Skies descend,
Or from the Waters rise?
When we to her Song attend,
Or view the Heaven in her Eyes,
No Mortal Creature she appears;
She must Celestial be,
But that she lives in a tempestuous Sea
Of wretched Lover's Tears.