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TO CELIA by JOHN SUCKLING

First Line: YOUTH AND BEAUTY NOW ARE THINE
Last Line: IS REFINED.

YOUTH and beauty now are thine,
O let pleasure, Celia, join:
Be divine.

Shun the folly of disdain,
Pride affords a short-lived reign
Full of pain.

All the graces court the kind,
Beauty by a tender mind
Is refined.



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