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Let the bird of loudest lay,

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On the sole Arabian tree,

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Herald sad and trumpet be,

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To whose sound chaste wings obey.


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But thou shrieking harbinger,


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Foul precurrer of the fiend,

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Augur of the fever's end,

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To this troop come thou not near!


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From this session interdict


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Every fowl of tyrant wing,

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Save the eagle, feathered king:

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Keep the obsequy so strict.


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Let the priest in surplice white,


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That defunctive music can,

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Be the death-divining swan,

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Lest the requiem lack his right.


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And thou treble-dated crow,


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That thy sable gender mak'st

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With the breath thou giv'st and tak'st,

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'Mongst our mourners shalt thou go.


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Here the anthem doth commence:


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Love and constancy is dead;

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Phoenix and the turtle fled

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In a mutual flame from hence.


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So they loved, as love in twain


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Had the essence but in one;

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Two distincts, division none:

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Number there in love was slain.


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Hearts remote, yet not asunder;


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Distance, and no space was seen

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'Twixt the turtle and his queen:

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But in them it were a wonder.


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So between them love did shine,


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That the turtle saw his right

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Flaming in the phoenix' sight;

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Either was the other's mine.


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Property was thus appalled,


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That the self was not the same;
 
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Single nature's double name

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Neither two nor one was called.


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Reason, in itself confounded,


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Saw division grow together,

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To themselves yet either neither,

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Simple were so well compounded;


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That it cried, How true a twain


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Seemeth this concordant one!

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Love hath reason, reason none,

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If what parts can so remain.


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Whereupon it made this threne


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To the phoenix and the dove,

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Co-supremes and stars of love,

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As chorus to their tragic scene.

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Threnos


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Beauty, truth, and rarity,


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Grace in all simplicity,

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Here enclosed, in cinders lie.


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Death is now the phoenix' nest;


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And the turtle's loyal breast

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To eternity doth rest.


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Leaving no posterity,


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'Twas not their infirmity,

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It was married chastity.


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Truth may seem, but cannot be;


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Beauty brag, but 'tis not she;

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Truth and beauty buried be.


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To this urn let those repair


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That are either true or fair;

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For these dead birds sigh a prayer.
 
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