Who is Silvia? what is she, |
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That all our swains commend her? |
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Holy, fair, and wise is she; |
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The heaven such grace did lend her, |
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That she might admired be. |
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Is she kind as she is fair? |
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For beauty lives with kindness. |
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Love doth to her eyes repair, |
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To help him of his blindness, |
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And, being helped, inhabits there. |
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Then to Silvia let us sing, |
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That Silvia is excelling; |
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She excels each mortal thing |
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Upon the dull earth dwelling: |
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To her let us garlands bring. |
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