The Poetical Works of John Milton


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Of pancies, pinks, and gaudy Daffadils.  
And, as the old Swain said, she can unlock  
The clasping charms, and thaw the numming spell,  
If she be right invok't in warbled Song,  
For maid'nhood she loves, and will be swift  
To aid a Virgin, such as was her self  
In hard besetting need, this will I try  
And adde the power of som adjuring verse.  
SONG.  
Sabrina fair  
Listen when thou art sitting  
Under the glassie, cool, translucent wave,  
In twisted braids of Lillies knitting  
The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair,  
Listen for dear honour's sake,  
Goddess of the silver lake,  
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Listen and save.  
Listen and appear to us  
In name of great Oceanus,  
By the earth-shaking Neptune's mace,  
And Tethys grave majestick pace,  
By hoary Nereus wrincled look,  
And the Carpathian wisards hook,  
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