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A DITTY MADE BY LORENZO ALLEGRE TO ONE SLEEPING TO BE SUNG, by EDWARD HERBERT Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, wonder!
Last Line: Admired light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord

AH, wonder!
So fair a heaven,
So fair a heaven
And no star shining,
Ay me, and no star shining,
'Tis past my divining.

Yet stay!
May not perchance this be some rising morn,
Which in the scorn
Of our world's light discloses
This air of violets, that sky of roses?

'Tis so.
An oriental sphere
Doth open and appear,
Ascending bright.
Then since thy hymn I chant,
Mayst thou new pleasures grant,
Admired light.

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