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Poems, and phancies

written By the Thrice Noble, Illustrious, And Excellent Princess The Lady Marchioness of Newcastle [i.e. Margaret Cavendish]. The Second Impression, much Altered and Corrected

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The Actions of the Mind Similized.

Imaginations high like Cedars show,
Where Leaves of new Inventions thick do grow;

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Which thoughts, as gentle Winds do Blow about,
And Contemplation makes those Leaves to Sprout;
And Pleasures with Delight, as Birds, do Sing
On every Bough, to think what Fame they bring.