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Thine eye Jove's lightning bears, thy voice his dreadful thunder,
Which, not to anger bent, is music, and sweet fire.
Celestial as thou art, oh pardon, love, this wrong,
That sings heaven's praise with such an earthly tongue!

Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good.

BEAUTY is but a vain and doubtful good;
A shining gloss that fadeth suddenly;
A flower that dies when first it 'gins to bud;
A brittle glass that's broken presently.

A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower,
Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour!

And as goods lost are seld or never found,
As faded gloss no rubbing will refresh,
As flowers dead lie wither'd on the ground,
As broken glass no cement can redress ;-
So beauty blemish'd once for ever's lost,
In spite of physic, painting, pain, and cost.

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Full fadom five thy father lies.
FULL fadom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes :
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change

Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly sing his knell ;

Burden.-Ding-dong.

Hark, now I hear them,-Ding-dong, bell.

Caliban's Song.

No more dams I'll make for fish ;
Nor fetch in firing

At requiring,

Nor scrape trencher, nor wash dish:

'Ban, 'Ban, Ca-Caliban

Has a new master-Get a new man. Freedom, hey-day! hey-day, Freedom! Freedom, hey-day, Freedom!

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