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Command the roof, great Genius, and from thence
That through each room a golden pipe may runOf living water by thy benizon;Fulfil the larders, and with strength’ning breadBe ever-more these bins replenished.Next, like a bishop consecrate my ground,That lucky fairies here may dance their round;And, after that, lay down some silver pence,The master’s charge and care to recompence.Charm then the chambers; make the…
Time was upon
And I call’d onHim but awhile to stay;But he’d be gone,For aught that I could say.He held out thenA writing, as he went,And ask’d me, whenFalse man would be contentTo pay againWhat God and Nature lent.An hour-glass,In which were sands but few,As he did pass,He shew’d,–and told me tooMine end near was;–And so away he…
How Love came in, I do not know,
Or whether with the soul it came,At first, infused with the same;Whether in part ’tis here or there,Or, like the soul, whole every where.This troubles me; but I as wellAs any other, this can tell;That when from hence she does depart,The outlet then is from the heart.
Charms, that call down the moon from out her sphere,
Bind up his senses with your numbers, soAs to entrance his pain, or cure his woe.Fall gently, gently, and a-while him keepLost in the civil wilderness of sleep:That done, then let him, dispossess’d of pain,Like to a slumbering bride, awake again.
Since shed or cottage I have none,
To whose glad threshold, and free doorI may a Poet come, though poor;And eat with thee a savoury bit,Paying but common thanks for it.–Yet should I chance, my Wicks, to seeAn over-leaven look in thee,To sour the bread, and turn the beerTo an exalted vinegar;Or should’st thou prize me as a dishOf thrice-boil’d worts, or…