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[Sing soft, ye pretty Birds, while Cælia sleepes]
Sing soft, ye pretty Birds, while Cælia sleepes,And gentle gales play gently with the leaues;
Learne of the neighbour brookes, whose silent deepes
Would teach him feare, that her soft sleep bereaues.
Myne Oaten reed, devoted to her praise,
(A theame that would befit the Delphian Lyre)
Give way, that I in silence may admire.
Is not her sleepe like that of innocents,
Sweet as her selfe; and is she not more faire,
Almost in death, then are the Ornaments
Of fruitfull trees, which newly budding are?
She is, and tell it, Truth, when she shall lye,
And sleep for euer, for she cannot dye.
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