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While I listen to thy voice, Chloris! I feel my life decay: That pow’rful noise Calls my fleeting soul away. Oh! suppress that magic sound, Which destroys without a wound. Peace, Chloris, peace! or singing die; That, together, you and I To heaven may go: For all we know Of what the Blessèd do above Is, that they sing, and that they love.
While I listen to thy voice, Chloris! I feel my life decay: That pow’rful noise Calls my fleeting soul away. Oh! suppress that magic sound, Which destroys without a wound. Peace, Chloris, peace! or singing die; That, together, you and I To heaven may go: For all we know Of what the Blessèd do above Is, that they sing, and that they love.
Approximate author period: c. 1646 AD · renaissance
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- Edmund Waller
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- Approximate author period: c. 1646 AD · renaissance
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 240 · printed citation: Edmund Waller (1606-1687). · compiler notes excluded
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