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- When Laura Smiles
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- When Laura smiles her sight revives both night and day
- The earth and heaven views with delight her wanton play
- And her speech with ever flowing music doth repair
- The cruel wounds of sorrow and untamΓÇÖd despair.
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- DianaΓÇÖs eyes are not adornΓÇÖd with greater powΓÇÖr
- Than LauraΓÇÖs when she lists awhile for sport to lure.
- But when she her eyes encloseth, blindness doth appear,
- The chiefest grace of beauty sweetly seated there.
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- Love hath no fire but what he steals from her bright eyes.
- Time hath no powΓÇÖr but that which in her pleasure lies.
- For she, with her divine beauties, all the world subdues,
- And fills with heavΓÇÖnly spirits my humble muse.
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- attributed to Thomas Campion
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