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IN IMITATION OF WALLER: 6. OF HER SIGHING, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: When love would strike th' offending fair
Last Line: Th' arabian coast, and waft us on our way.
Subject(s): Waller, Edmund (1606-1687)


When love would strike th' offending fair,
This incense bribes the god to spare;
And Cytheroea now does prize
No sweets but Serenissa's sighs.
The yielding nymph by these confest,
Encourag'd lovers seek her breast:
So spicy gales at once betray
Th' Arabian coast, and waft us on our way.





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