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SONNET, ON READING THE INDUCTION TO THE MIRROR OF MAGISTRATES, WHEREIN THE POET, LED BY SORROW, DESCENDS TO HELL.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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SONNET, ON READING THE INDUCTION TO THE MIRROR OF MAGISTRATES, WHEREIN THE POET, LED BY SORROW, DESCENDS TO HELL.

Led by thy guidance to the gate of woe,
And taught the frail delights of upper air,
O Sackvile, by thy side I walk, and know
What doleful sights we shall inherit there:
Then, Oh, farewell the golden palaces,
The blooming gardens, and the deered walks,
Where great Ambition takes it's restless ease,
And Virtue with retired honour talks;
Farewell the day of action or of thought,
The night, that or in love or musing dies,
Farewell the kingly favour, and distraught
With passion, O, farewell my lady's eyes:
Farewell to this sweet world, for now I go,
In thought and presence, to the land of woe!