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The Silkworm.

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D' altrui pietoso.     Kind to the world, but to itself unkind,             A worm is born, that dying noiselessly             Despoils itself to clothe fair limbs, and be             In its true worth by death alone divined.     Oh, would that I might die, for her to find             Raiment in my outworn mortality!             That, changing like the snake, I might be free             To cast the slough wherein I dwell confined!     Nay, were it mine, that shaggy fleece that stays,             Woven and wrought into a vestment fair,             Around her beauteous bosom in such bliss!     All through the day she'd clasp me! Would I were             The shoes that bear her burden! When the ways             Were wet with rain, her feet I then should kiss!

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