Mel Heliconium or, Poeticall Honey, Gathered out of The Weeds of Parnassus ... By Alexander Rosse |
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CASTOR and POLLUX.
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CASTOR and POLLUX.
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To share his immortality
With Castor that was slain;
That they might both participate
Of life and death by turn, and that
They both might grow and wain;
How much more gracious was he,
Who was a King, and yet would dye
For him that was a slave;
That he might never dye again,
But might be freed from endlesse pain,
And from the eating grave.
O Lord thou art that King, and I
The slave, who for my sins must dye,
And to my dust return:
O raise me by thy mighty aid
In that last day, from deaths black shade,
And from my silent Urn.
And let me not with Castor trace
So often too and from that place
Where night and darknesse raign;
But joyn me to these winged wights,
Which far above heavens twinkling lights
With thee in blisse remain.
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