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"So swift streams meet, so springs with gladder smiles
Meet after long divorcement made by isles:
When love (the child of likeness) urgeth on
Their crystal waters to an union.
So meet stol'n kisses when the moonie night
Calls forth fierce lovers to their wisht delight:
So kings and queens meet, when desire convinces
All thoughts, save those that tend to getting princes.
As I meet thee, Soul of my life and fame!
Eternal Lamp of Love, whose radiant flame
Out-darts the heaven's Osiris; and thy gems
Darken the splendour of his mid-day beams.
Welcome, O welcome, my illustrious spouse!
Welcome as are the ends unto my vows:
Nay, far more welcome than the happy soil
The sea-scourged merchant, after all his toil,
Salutes with tears of joy, when fires display
The smoking chimneys of his Ithaca.
Where hast thou been so long from my embraces,
Poor pitied exile? Tell me, did thy Graces
Fly discontented hence, and for a time
Choose rather for to bless some other clime?
†*Oh, then, not longer let my sweet defer
- Her buxom smiles from me, her worshipper!
Why have those amber looks, the which have been
Time-past so fragrant, sickly now call'd in
Like a dull twilight? Tell me, *hath my soul
- Prophaned
