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First Line: Lately on yonder swelling bush
Last Line: To wax more soft, her youth invades
Subject(s): Carpe Diem


LATELY on yonder swelling bush,
Big with many a coming rose,
This early bud began to blush,
And did but half itself disclose;
I plucked it, though no better grown,
Yet now you see how full 'tis blown.

Still as I did the leaves inspire,
With such a purple light they shone,
As if they had been made of fire,
And spreading so, would flame anon,
All that was meant by air, or sun,
To this young flower, my breath has done.

If our loose breath so much can do,
What may the same in forms of love?
Of purest love and music, too
When Flavia it aspires to move;
When that which liveless buds persuades
To wax more soft, her youth invades





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