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Ad Echum

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Title:     Ad Echum
Author: Henry Vaughan [More Titles by Vaughan]

O quae frondosae per am[oe]na cubilia silvae
Nympha volas, lucoque loquax spatiaris in alto,
Annosi numen nemoris, saltusque verendi
Effatum, cui sola placent postrema relatus!
Te per Narcissi morientis verba, precesque
Per pueri lassatam animam, et conamina vitae
Ultima, palantisque precor suspiria linguae.
Da quo secretae haec incaedua devia silvae,
Anfractusque loci dubios, et lustra repandam.
Sic tibi perpetua--meritoque--haec regna juventa
Luxurient, dabiturque tuis, sine fine, viretis
Intactas lunae lachrymas, et lambere rorem
Virgineum, c[oe]lique animas haurire tepentis.
Nec cedant aevo stellis, sed lucida semper
Et satiata sacro aeterni medicamine veris
Ostendant longe vegetos, ut sidera, vultus!
Sic spiret muscata comas, et cinnama passim!
Diffundat levis umbra, in funere qualia spargit
Ph[oe]nicis rogus aut Pancheae nubila flammae!


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Henry Vaughan's poem: Ad Echum

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