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TO A LADY SINGING by EDMUND WALLER

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First Line: WHILE I LISTEN TO THY VOICE
Last Line: IS THAT THEY SING, AND THAT THEY LOVE.
Subject(s): LOVE; SINGING & SINGERS;
WHILE I listen to thy voice,
Chloris, I feel my life decay,
That powerful noise
Calls my fleeting soul away;
O suppress that magic sound,
Which destroys without a wound.
Peace, peace,
Chloris, peace,
Or singing die,
That together thou and I
To Heaven may go;
For all we know
Of what the Blessèd do above,
Is that they sing, and that they love.



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