| nan | Of Helicon-hill, O Thou that be |
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| nan | Wearing the saffron'd sock. |
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| nan | And, roused by day of joyful cheer |
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| nan | Carolling nuptial lays and chaunt |
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| nan | With voice as silver ringing clear |
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| nan | Beat ground with feet, while brandisht flaunt |
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| nan | Thy hand the piney torch. |
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| nan | For Vinia comes by Manlius woo'd |
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| nan | As Venus on th' Idalian crest |
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| nan | Before the Phrygian judge she stood |
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| nan | And now with blessed omens blest |
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| nan | Haunter, Urania 's progeny |
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| nan | The maid is here to wed. |
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| nan | A maiden shining bright of blee |
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| nan | As Myrtle branchlet Asia bred |
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| nan | As toy for joyance aye befed |
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| nan | With humour of the dew. |
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| nan | Then hither come thou, hieing lief |
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| nan | Awhile to leave th' Aonian cave |
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| nan | Where 'neath the rocky Thespian cliff |
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| nan | Nymph Aganippe loves to lave |
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| nan | Who hurriest soft virginity |
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| nan | In cooly waves outpoured. |
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| nan | And call the house-bride, homewards bring |
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| nan | Maid yearning for new married fere |
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| nan | Her mind with fondness manacling |
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| nan | As the tough ivy here and there |
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| nan | Errant the tree enwinds. |
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| nan | And likewise ye, clean virginal |
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| nan | Maidens, to whom shall haps befall |
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| nan | Like day, in measure join ye all |
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| nan | Singing, 0 Hymenaeus Hymen |
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| nan | To man, 0 Hymenaeus Hymen |
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| nan | That with more will-full will a-hearing |
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| nan | The call to office due, he would |
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| nan | Turn footsteps hither, here appearing |
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| nan | Guide to good Venus , and the good |
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| nan | Lover conjoining strait. |
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| nan | What God than other Godheads more |
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| nan | Must love-sick wights for aid implore? |
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| nan | Whose Godhead foremost shall adore |
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| nan | Mankind? 0 Hymenaeus Hymen |
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| nan | Thee for his own the trembling sire |
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| nan | Invokes, thee Virgins ever sue |
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| nan | Who laps of zone to loose aspire |
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| nan | And thee the bashful bridegrooms woo |
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| nan | With ears that long to hear. |
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| nan | Thou to the hand of love-fierce swain |
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| nan | Deliverest maiden fair and fain |
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| nan | From mother's fondling bosom ta'en |
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| nan | Perforce, 0 Hymenaeus Hymen |
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| nan | About thy temples bind the bloom |
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| nan | Thou lacking, Venus ne'er avails— |
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| nan | While Fame approves for honesty— |
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| nan | Love-joys to lavish: ne'er she fail |
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| nan | Thou willing:—with such Deity |
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| nan | Whoe'er shall dare compare? |
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| nan | Thou wanting, never son and heir |
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| nan | The Hearth can bear, nor parents be |
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| nan | By issue girt, yet can it bear |
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| nan | Thou willing:—with such Deity |
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| nan | Of Marjoram flow'ret scented sweet; |
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| nan | Whoe'er shall dare compare? |
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| nan | An lack a land thy sacring rite |
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| nan | The perfect rule we ne'er shall see |
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| nan | Reach Earth's far bourne; yet such we sight |
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| nan | Thou willing:—with such Deity |
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| nan | Whoe'er shall dare compare? |
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| nan | Take flamey veil: glad hither come |
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| nan | Come hither borne by snow-hue'd feet |
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