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Richard Lovelace - Song.Richard Lovelace - Song.
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                I. In mine one monument I lye,   And in my self am buried; Sure, the quick lightning of her eye   Melted my soul ith` scabberd dead; And now like some pale ghost I walk, And with another`s spirit talk.                 II. Nor can her beams a heat convey,   That may my frozen bosome warm, Unless her smiles have pow`r, as they,   That a cross charm can countercharm. But this is such a pleasing pain, I`m loth to be alive again.             ANOTHER. I did believe I was in heav`n, When first the heav`n her self was giv`n, That in my heart her beams did passe As some the sun keep in a glasse, So that her beauties thorow me Did hurt my rival-enemy. But fate, alas! decreed it so, That I was engine to my woe: For, as a corner`d christal spot, My heart diaphanous was not; But solid stuffe, where her eye flings Quick fire upon the catching strings: Yet, as at triumphs in the night, You see the Prince`s Arms in light, So, when I once was set on flame, I burnt all ore the letters of her name.
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