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First Line: Come let us now to each discover
Last Line: "my loves begun, it will not end"
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliza+1
Subject(s): Beauty;faces;flowers;love


Come let us now to each discover,
Who is our friend, and who our Lover,
What? art thou now asham'd of thine,
I tell thee true, Ime not of mine.

And you will say when you him see,
That none but he, desir'd can bee,
He is the onely pleasing wight,
Whose presence can content my sight.

For He's the purest red and white,
In whom my soule takes her delight:
He to the flowrs their beauty gives,
In him the Rose and Lilly lives,

His pleasant haire with seemly grace,
Hangs by his faire sweet lovely face,
And from his pleasing eyes do dart
Their arrows which do pierce my heart.

These beauties all are richly grac'st,
For on his head, a crown is plac'st,
Of glory, which doth shine so bright,
As mortall eye can see this light,

This lovely Lord's, the Prince of Peace,
In him, my joyes will full increase;
For he's the true, and constant friend,
Whose love begun, will never end.

From Heaven he came with me to dwell,
And sav'd my soul from direfull hell,
'Tis he alone my heart doth gaine,
That keeps me from eternall pain.

While here I live, here he will bee;
Death cannot separate him from me:
And when I dye, he will me place,
Where I shall ever see his face.

Into his glory, hee'l take mee,
This doe I know, this shall you see
And now you know my loved friend,
My loves begun, it will not end.





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