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HE CELEBRATES THE BIRTHPLACE OF LAURA.
He that with wisdom, goodness, power divine, / Did ample Nature's perfect book design, / Adorn'd this beauteous world, and those above, / Kindled fierce Mars, and soften'd milder Jove: / When seen on earth the shadows to fulfill / Of the less volume which conceal'd his will, / Took John and Peter from their homely care, / And made them pillars of his temple fair.