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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
QUATRAIN, by SIDNEY GODOLPHIN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Soft and sweet airs, whose gentle gales
Last Line: Whether to you they aught can owe.
First Line: Soft and sweet airs, whose gentle gales
Last Line: Whether to you they aught can owe.
SOFT and sweet airs, whose gentle gales
Swell, but do slackly swell our sails,
And only such to Heaven convey,
Whom their own side doth waft that way.
Instructing them in happiness
Who were before in ken of bliss --
Though only saints do hear and see
The angels in your harmony.
Yet even from us ill spirits fly [ee'.]
When by such charms, uncharm'd we be;
The unprepar'd this grace do find,
Ye cool and do refresh the mind.
But the more peaceful souls and free
Meet with their own your harmony
Sometimes surpris'd, then do prevent
The less harmonious Instrument.
Soft airs, ye gently fan a fire
Of pure unmixt thoughts, which aspire
So of themselves I do not know
Whether to you they aught can owe.
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