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"Poems and songs by Thomas Flatman." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A39652.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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The PENITENT.
SONG.
I.
HAd I but known some years agoWhat wretched lovers undergo;The tempests and the stormes that riseFrom their beloved's dangerous eyes,With how much torment they endureThat Ague, and that Calenture;Long since I had my error seen,Long since repented of my sin:Too late the souldier dread's the Trumpets soundThat newly has received his mortal wound.
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But so adventurous was IMy fortunes all alone to try,Need's must I kiss the burning light,Because it shin'd, because 'twas bright,My heart with youthful heat on fire,I thought some God did me inspire;And that blind zeal imboldned me,T'attempt Althaea's Deitie;Surely those happy Pow'rs that dwell above,Or never courted, or enjoy'd their love.
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