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First Line: Leave the moon her white amazing
Last Line: God's divinest creature.
Alternate Author Name(s): L., P. H. B.
Subject(s): Oxford University


LEAVE the moon her white amazing,
Leave the happy stars their splendour;
None of all their stolen beauty
Could enchantment lend her.

Where's the boast of summer roses,
Or the show in winter weather,
When her cheek doth entertain them
Red and white together?

Suns that sail away unclouded,
And the sudden silver raining,
Mingle in her eyes their sweetness,
There to strive disdaining.

Perfect as an inspiration,
Seized ere faith and sight grew fainter,
Boldly limned, with breath quick-coming,
By a master-painter.

Perfect in the strangest wonder
Of each quaint imperfect feature,
Fashioning in their completeness
God's divinest creature.





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