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Walter Raleigh - Prais`d be Diana`s Fair and Harmless LightWalter Raleigh - Prais`d be Diana`s Fair and Harmless Light
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Prais`d be Diana`s fair and harmless light;     Prais`d be the dews wherewith she moists the ground;     Prais`d be her beams, the glory of the night;     Prais`d be her power by which all powers abound.     Prais`d be her nymphs with whom she decks the woods,     Prais`d be her knights in whom true honour lives;     Prais`d be that force by which she moves the floods;     Let that Diana shine which all these gives.     In heaven queen she is among the spheres;    In aye she mistress-like makes all things pure;    Eternity in her oft change she bears;    She beauty is; by her the fair endure.    Time wears her not: she doth his chariot guide;    Mortality below her orb is plac`d;    By her the virtue of the stars down slide;    In her is virtue`s perfect image cast.        A knowledge pure it is her worth to know:        With Circes let them dwell that think not so.
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