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A Song: When June Is Past, The Fading Rose

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Ask me no more where Jove bestows,     When June is past, the fading rose;     For in your beauty's orient deep     These flowers as in their causes, sleep.     Ask me no more whither doth stray     The golden atoms of the day;     For in pure love heaven did prepare     Those powders to enrich your hair.     Ask me no more whither doth haste     The nightingale when May is past;     For in your sweet dividing throat     She winters and keeps warm her note.     Ask me no more where those stars light     That downwards fall in dead of night;     For in your eyes they sit, and there,     Fixed become as in their sphere.     Ask me no more if east or west     The phnix builds her spicy nest;     For unto you at last she flies,     And in your fragrant bosom dies.

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