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First Line: Fair and lovely maid, look from the shore
Last Line: That thou be pleased, and I may sigh no more.
Subject(s): Hero & Leander; Kisses; Love; Peace; Leander


Fair and lovely maid, look from the shore,
See thy Leander striving in these waves,
Poor soul forspent, whose force can do no more;
Now send forth hopes, for now calm pity saves,
And waft him to thee with those lovely eyes,
A happy convoy to a holy land.
Now show thy power, and where thy virtue lies;
To save thine own, stretch out the fairest hand.
Stretch out the fairest hand, a pledge of peace --
That hand that darts so right and never misses;
I'll not revenge old wrongs, my wrath shall cease;
For that which gave me wounds, I'll give it kisses.
Once let the ocean of my cares find shore,
That thou be pleased, and I may sigh no more.





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