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First Line: Hark how she laughs aloud
Last Line: Is still the pleasant'st jest.
Subject(s): Laughter


HARK how she laughs aloud,
Although the world put on its shroud;
Wept at by the fantastic crowd,
Who cry, One drop let fall
From her might save the universal ball.
She laughs again
At our ridiculous pain;
And at our merry misery
She laughs until she cry.
Sages, forbear
That ill-contrived tear,
Although your fear
Doth barricado hope from your soft ear.
That which still makes her mirth to flow
Is our sinister-handed woe,
Which downwards on its head doth go;
And ere that it is sown, doth grow.
This makes her spleen contract,
And her just pleasure feast;
For the unjustest act
Is still the pleasant'st jest.





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