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First Line: As men in green-land left behind the sunne
Last Line: And let mee and my sunne beget a man.
Subject(s): Farewell; Parting


1.

AS Men in Green-land left beheld the Sunne
From their Horizon run;
And thought upon the sad halfe year
Of Cold and Darknesse they must suffer there:

2.

So on my parting Mistresse did I look,
With such swollen eyes my farewel took;
Ah, my fair Starre, said I;
Ah those blesst Lands to which bright Thou dost flye!

3.

In vain the Men of Learning comfort mee;
And say I 'me in a warme degree;
Say what they please; I say and swear
'Tis beyond eighty at least, if you 'r not here.

4.

It is, it is; I tremble with the Frost,
And know that I the Day have lost;
And those wild things which Men they call,
I find to be but Bears and Foxes all.

5.

Returne, returne, gay Planet of the East,
Of all that shines Thou much the best!
And as thou now descends to Sea;
More fair and fresh rise up from thence to Mee.

6.

Thou, who in many a Prop'riety,
So truly art the Sun to Mee,
Adde one more likenesse, which I'm sure you can,
And let Mee and my Sunne beget a Man.





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