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UPON PRINCESS ELIZABETH, BORN THE NIGHT BEFORE NEW YEAR'S DAY by JOHN CLEVELAND

Poet Analysis

First Line: ASTROLOGERS SAY VENUS, THE SELF-SAME STAR
Last Line: WITH EVERY YEAR A NEW EPIPHANY.
Subject(s): HOLIDAYS; NEW YEAR;

ASTROLOGERS say Venus, the self-same star,
Is both our Hesperus and Lucifer;
The antitype, this Venus, makes it true;
She shuts the old year and begins the new.
Her brother with a star at noon was born;
She, like a star both of the eve and morn.
Count o'er the stars, fair Queen, in babes, and vie
With every year a new Epiphany.



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