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Au FIRMAMENT.
‘Would I were yon blue field above,’
(Said Plato, warbling am'rous lays,)
‘That with ten thousand eyes of love,
‘On thee for ever I might gaze.’
(Said Plato, warbling am'rous lays,)
‘That with ten thousand eyes of love,
‘On thee for ever I might gaze.’
My purer love the wish disclaims,
For were I, like Tiresias, blind,
Still should I glow with heavenly flames,
And gaze with rapture on thy mind.
For were I, like Tiresias, blind,
Still should I glow with heavenly flames,
And gaze with rapture on thy mind.
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