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First Line: Her body is so gently bright
Last Line: Both from my murther'd heart, and murth'rer fly.


HER body is so gently bright,
Clear and transparent to the sight,
(Clear as fair Christall to the view,
Yet soft as that, ere Stone it grew;)
That through her flesh, methinks, is seen
The brighter Soule that dwels within:
Our Eyes through th' radiant covering passe,
And see that Lilly through its Glasse.
I through her Breast, her Heart espy,
As Soules in hearts do Soules descry,
I see't with gentle Motions beat;
I see light in't, but find no heat.
Within, like Angels in the Sky,
A thousand gilded thoughts do fly:
Thoughts of bright and noblest kind,
Fair and chast, as Mother-Minde
But, oh, what other heart is there,
Which sighs and crouds to her's so neer?
'Tis all on flame, and does like Fire,
To that, as to its Heaven, aspire.
The wounds are many in't, and deep;
Still does it bleed, and still does weep.
Whosever wretched Heart it be,
I cannot chuse but grieve to see;
What pitty in my Breast does raigne?
Methinks I feel [too] all its pain.
So torn, and so defac'd it lies,
That it could neer be known by t' eyes;
But, oh, at last I heard it groan,
And knew by th' Voice that 'twas mine owne.
So poor Alcione, when she saw
A shipwrackt body to'wards her draw,
Beat by the waves, let fall a Tear,
Which only then did Pitty wear:
But when the Corps on shore were cast,
Which she her husband found at last;
What should the wretched widow do?
Grief chang'd her strait; away she flew,
Turn'd to a Bird: And so at last shall I,
Both from my Murther'd Heart, and Murth'rer fly.





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