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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 Wish.
SONG.
I.
NOt to the Hills where Cedars moveTheir cloudy heads, not to the groveOf Myrtles in th' Elysian shade,Nor Tempe which the Poets made;Not on the spicy mountaines play,Or travail to Arabia:I aime not at the careful throne,Which Fortune's darlings sit upon;No, no, the best this fickle world can giveHas but a litttle, little time to live.
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But let me soar, O let me flieBeyond poor Earths benighted ey,Beyond the pitch swift Eagles towre,••Above the reach of humane Power;Above the Stars, above the way,Whence Phoebus darts his piercing ray.O let me tread those Courts that are,So bright, so pure, so blest, so fair,As neither thou, nor I must never knowOn Earth 'tis thither, thither would I go.
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