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The Sonnets Of Tommaso Campanella - A Writer Of Eclogues. To Annibale Caraccioli,

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Non Licida, n Driope.     Lycoris, Lycidas, and Dryope             Cannot, dear Niblo, save thy name from death;             Shadows that fleet, and flowers that yield their breath,             Match not the Love that craves infinity.     The beauty thou dost worship dwells in thee:             Within thy soul divine it harboureth:             This also bids my spirit soar, and saith             Words that unsphere for me heaven's harmony.     Make then thine inborn lustre beam and shine             With love of goodness; goodness cannot fail:             From God alone let praise immense be thine.     My soul is tired of telling o'er the tale             With men: she calls on thine: she bids thee go             Into God's school with tablets white as snow.

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