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Sprite of Bythryckespeaks.
What wondrous monument, what pile is this,
That binds in wonder's chain entendèment?
That doth aloft the airy skyën kiss,
And seemeth mountains, joined by cement,
From Goddès great and wondrous storehouse sent.
Full well mine eyes advise it cannot be,
That man could rear of such a great extent
A church so huge yet handsome as we see.
The scattered clouds, disparted, from it fly,
'Twill be, Iwis, to all eternity.
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