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EPITHALAMIUM TO THE L.T. MARRIED IN THE NORTH, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Welcome, fairest, thee our rhyme
Last Line: Besieg'd by cold fire burns the more.
Subject(s): Wedding Song; Epithalamium


WELCOME, fairest, thee our rhyme
Congratulates, rather than him,
Who shines obliquely on our clime.

The beams directly pointed fall,
That we our Bear the Cancer call,
This zone still Equinoctial.

The mists our German seas create,
They eyes, though Phoebus meditate,
Originally dissipate.

Cassiope, though heavenly fair,
Hides her new face, and burnish'd chair,
When you enlighten the day's air.

They only rule material sense;
Your Love's example may dispense
To inflam'd souls chaste influence.

Unto that flame, which doubly warms
Thy beauty's Summer, and Love's charms,
May time nor sickness threaten harms.

May Hymen's torch on northern shore
Dilate into a Pharos; for
Besieg'd by cold fire burns the more.





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