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CAELICA: 79 by FULKE GREVILLE

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First Line: AS WHEN MEN SEE A BLAZING STAR APPEAR
Last Line: AS STILL CASTS IMPUTATIONS ON SUPREMES.
As when men see a blazing star appear,
Each stirs up others, levity to wonder,
In restless thoughts holding those visions dear,
Which threaten to rent government in sunder,
Yet be but horrors, from vain hearts sent forth,
To prophesy against anointed worth;

So likewise mankind, when true government
Her great examples to the world brings forth,
Straight in the error's native discontent
Sees apparitions opposite to worth,
Which gathers such sense out of envy's beams,
As still casts imputations on supremes.



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