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This user has absolutely no life.
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- Mirth, admit me of thy crew
- To live with her, and live with thee,
- In unreproved pleasures free;
- To hear the lark begin his flight,
- And singing startle the dull night,
- From his watch-tower in the skies,
- Till the dappled dawn doth rise;
- Or let my lamp at midnight hour,
- Be seen in some high lonely tow'r,
- Where I may oft out-watch the Bear,
- With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere
- The spirit of Plato, to unfold
- What worlds, or what vast regions hold
- The immortal mind that hath forsook
- Her mansion in this fleshly nook:
- Hail divinest Melancholy,
- Whose saintly visage is too bright
- To hit the sense of human sight;
- And therefore to our weaker view,
- O'er-laid with black, staid Wisdom's hue;
- Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy
- In sceptr'd pall come sweeping by,
- Presenting Thebes', or Pelop's line,
- Or the tale of Troy divine,
- Or what (though rare) of later age,
- Ennobled hath the buskin'd stage.
- But let my due feet never fail
- To walk the studious cloister's pale,
- And love the high embowed roof,
- With antique pillars massy proof,
- And storied windows richly dight,
- Casting a dim religious light.
- There let the pealing organ blow,
- To the full-voic'd quire below,
- In service high, and anthems clear,
- As may with sweetness, through mine ear,
- Dissolve me into ecstasies,
- And bring all Heav'n before mine eyes.
- These pleasures, Melancholy, give,
- And I with thee will choose to live.
