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First Line: Hence clouded lookes, hence briny teares
Last Line: A joyfull venus doth arise.
Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649)


HEnce clouded lookes, hence briny teares
Hence eye, that sorrowe's livery weares.
What though a while Apollo please
To visit the Antipodes?
Yet hee returnes, and with his light
Expells, what he hath caus'd, the night.
What though the spring vanish away
And with it the earth's forme decay?
Yet att's new birth it will restore
What it's departure tooke before.
What though wee mist our absent King
Erewhile? Great Charles is come agin,
And, with his presence makes us know,
The gratitude to Heaven wee owe.
So doth a cruell storme impart
And teach us Palinurus' art.
So from salt flouds, wept by our eyes,
A joyfull Venus doth arise.





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