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Natitbb had long a treasure made,

Of all her chaicest store,
Fearing^ when she should be decayed.

To beg in vain for more.

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Her orientest colours there,

And essences most pure,
With sweetest perfumes hoarded were,

All, as she thought, secure,

III.
She seldom them unlocked or used

But with the nicest care ;
For, with one grain of them diffused.

She could the world repair.

IV.

But likeness soon together drew,
What she did separate lay ;

Of which one perfect beauty grew,
And that was Celia.



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Love wisely had of long foreseen
That he must once grow old.

And therefore stored a magazine
To save him from the cold.

VI*

He kept the several cells replete

With nitre thrice refined,
The naphtha's and the sulphur's heat.

And all that bums the mind.

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He fortified the double gate.
And rarely thither came ;
For, with one spark of these, he straight All nature could inflame.

VIII*

Till, by vicinity so long,

A nearer way they sought,
And, grown magnetically strong.

Into each other wrought.

IX.

Thus all his fuel did unite

To make one fire high :
None ever burned so hot, so bright :

And, Celia, that am I.



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So we alone the happj rest.
Whilst all the world is poor,

And have within ourselves possessed
All love's and nature's store.



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OF HABVBLL. 89



THE MOWER AGAINST GARDENS.

LuxuBious man, to bring bis vice in use,

Did after bim tbe world seduce,
And from tbe fields tbe flowers and plants allure,

Wbere nature was most plain and pure.
He first inclosed witbin tbe gardens square

A dead and standing pool of air,
And a more luscious eartb from them did knead,

Wbicb stupefied tbem wbile it fed.
Tbe pink grew tben as double as bis mind ;

Tbe nutriment did cbange the kind.
With strange perfumes be did tbe roses taint;

And flowers themselves were taught to paint.
Tbe tulip white did for complexion seek,

And learned to interline its cheek ;
Its union root they tben so high did hold,

That one was for a meadow sold :
Another world was searched through oceans new,

To find tbe marble of Peru,
And yet these rarities might be allowed

To man, that sovereign thing and proud,



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Had he not dealt between the bark and tree.

Forbidden mixtures there to see.
No plant now knew the stock from which it came ;

He grafts upon the wild the tame,
That the uncertain and adulterate fruit

Might put the palate in dispute.