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TO A LOVELY WOMAN, by                    
First Line: Those myriad hours and days unwillingly spent
Last Line: My record has authority as true.
Subject(s): Women


Those myriad hours and days unwillingly spent
In total want of aught to give Time worth,
Cut not upon the granite monument,
But strike them from the record of my birth.
Upon the registration leaf mark not
Dull clock told age -- years utterly devoid
Of things remembered gladly -- nor allot
To me Time measured but not Time enjoyed.
One moment may be immortality!
Yet since this world must keep its mortal file,
Within the book set down my natal day
As when we met; my end -- shall I foretell?
The day I lose you. Calendared by you
My record has authority as true.





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