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First Line: Go, bashful muse: thy message is to one
Last Line: He turn'd love's wanton god, and so do you.
Subject(s): Porter, Endymion (1587-1649)


GO, bashful Muse: thy message is to one
That drinks and fills thy Helicon,
Who, when his quill a sportive number seeks,
Plants roses in the ladies' cheeks,
And with a sad note from their eyes can call
Pearl-show'rs to dew those buds withal;
Whose lays, when I by chance am blest to hear,
My soul climbs up into mine ear,
And bids your sisters challenge from the moon
The learned, as the fair, Endymion.
Sing of his faith to the bright soul that's fled,
And left you all, poor girls, struck dead
With just despair of any future men
T'employ or to reward a pen.
A soul, that staying would have wonders wrought,
High as himself or his great thought,
And full of days and honours (with our prayers,
Instead of beads summ'd up with tears),
Might of her own free flight to heaven have gone,
Offer what's heart, his hand, his sword had done,
But sing not thou a tale of discontent
To him whose joy is to lament.
We ought to pay true tears upon the hearse,
And lay some up in faithful verse,
And so cast off our black; for more than thus
Troubles the saints for troubling us.
Say to him, Cupid, being once too kind,
Wept out his eyes, and so grew blind.
For dead Adonis, grief being paid her due,
He turn'd love's wanton god, and so do you.





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