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[When you, Clarinda, bless mine Eyes]
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When you, Clarinda, bless mine Eyes,My swelling Heart with Joys o're fraught,
Beneath the Pressure panting lies,
And a short Death suspends my Thought:
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'Tis more than Life to view your Charms again.
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Like Stars your Influence is found,And I by Darts unseen expire;
Your Beauties at a Distance wound,
And kindle in my Heart a Fire;
A Fire more pure than from the Stars e're came,
Bright as your Eyes, and lasting as their Flame.
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And as Heav'n, when the Happy goT' inherit their Paternal Sky,
Rewards short Death endur'd below,
With Bliss, and Immortality:
So You my present Suff'rings can remove,
And give Eternal Life, Eternal Love.
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Thus when Kind Venus saw her fair,Belov'd Adonis pale, and dead,
She did the Youth at once prefer
To Heav'n, and her immortal Bed;
Between her Breasts he lies dissolv'd in Charms,
And there for ever wantons in her Arms.
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