The Poetical Works of John Milton


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Sweet Echo, sweetest Nymph that liv'st unseen  
Within thy airy shell  
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By slow Meander's margent green,  
And in the violet imbroider'd vale  
Where the love-lorn Nightingale  
Nightly to thee her sad Song mourneth well.  
Canst thou not tell me of a gentle Pair  
That likest thy Narcissus are?  
O if thou have  
Hid them in som flowry Cave,  
Tell me but where  
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Sweet Queen of Parly, Daughter of the Sphear,  
So maist thou be translated to the skies,  
And give resounding grace to all Heav'ns Harmonies.  
Co: Can any mortal mixture of Earths mould  
Breath such Divine inchanting ravishment?  
Sure somthing holy lodges in that brest,  
And with these raptures moves the vocal air  
To testifie his hidd'n residence;  
How sweetly did they float upon the wings  
Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night  
At every fall smoothing the Raven doune  
Of darknes till it smil'd: I have oft heard  
My mother Circe with the Sirens three,  
Amid'st the flowry-kirtl'd Naiades  
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