Date: 1667
"So Age and Death by slow approches come, / And by that just inevitable doom / By which the Soul (her cloggy dross once gone) / Puts on Perfection, and resumes her own."
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Date: 1667
"Too promising, too great a mind/ In so small room to be confin'd"
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Date: 1667
"By giving thy Soul room to move: / Affording scene unto that mind, / Which is too great to be confin'd. [...]Thou mightst retire, but who e're meant / A Palace for a Tenement"
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Date: 1667
"And as in Palaces the outmost, worst / Rooms entertain our wonder at the first; / But once within the Presence-Chamber door, / We do despise what e're we saw before: / So when you with her Mind acquaintance get, / You'l hardly think upon the Cabinet."
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Date: 1667
"Thy Heart locks up my Secrets richly set, / And my Breast is thy private Cabinet."
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Date: 1667
"Whose Mirrours are the crystal Brooks, / Or else each others Hearts and Looks."
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Date: 1667
"And yet those Souls, when first they met, / Lookt out at windows through the Eyes."
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Date: 1667
"For as a Watch by art is wound / To motion, such was mine: / But never had Orinda found / A Soul till she found thine."
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Date: 1667
"How vain a thing is Man, whose noblest part, / That Soul which through the World doth rome, / Traverses Heav'n, finds out the depth of Art, / Yet is so ignorant at home?"
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Date: 1667
"In every Brook or Mirrour we can find / Reflections of our face to be; / But a true Optick to present our Mind / We hardly get, and darkly see."
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