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A DITTY MADE BY LORENZO ALLEGRE TO ONE SLEEPING TO BE SUNG by EDWARD HERBERT

First Line: AH, WONDER!
Last Line: ADMIRED LIGHT.

AH, wonder!
So fair a heaven,
So fair a heaven
And no star shining,
Ay me, and no star shining,
'Tis past my divining.

Yet stay!
May not perchance this be some rising morn,
Which in the scorn
Of our world's light discloses
This air of violets, that sky of roses?

'Tis so.
An oriental sphere
Doth open and appear,
Ascending bright.
Then since thy hymn I chant,
Mayst thou new pleasures grant,
Admired light.



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