Fair Moon, who with thy cold and silver shine
Makes sweet the horror of the dreadful night,
Delighting the weak eye with smiles divine,
Which Phoebus dazzles with his too much light;
Bright Queen of the first Heaven, if in thy shrine,
By turning oft, and Heaven’s eternal might,
Thou hast not yet that once sweet fire of thine,
Endymion, forgot, and lover’s plight;
If cause like thine may pity breed in thee,
And pity somewhat else to it obtain,
Since thou hast power of dreams, as well as he
Who paints strange figures in the slumb’ring brain,
Now while she sleeps, in doleful guise her show
These tears, and the black map of all my woe.
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The End
And that’s the End of the Poem
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