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Walter Raleigh - A Vision upon the Fairy Queen
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Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay,
    Within that temple where the vestal flame
Was wont to burn; and, passing by that way,
    To see that buried dust of living fame,
Whose tomb fair Love and fairer Virtue kept,
    All suddenly I saw the Fairy Queen,
At whose approach the soul of Petrarch wept ;
    And from thenceforth those graces were not seen,
For they this Queen attended; in whose stead
    Oblivion laid him down on Laura`s hearse.
Hereat the hardest stones were seen to bleed,
    And groans of buried ghosts the heavens did pierce :
Where Homer`s spright did tremble all for grief,
    And cursed the access of that celestial thief.
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