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Oh, thy bright eyes must answer now, / When Reason, with a scornful brow, / Is mocking at my overthrow! / Oh, thy sweet tongue must plead for me / And tell why I have chosen thee!
Stern Reason is to judgment come, / Arrayed in all her forms of gloom: / Wilt thou, my advocate, be dumb? / No, radiant angel, speak and say, / Why I did cast the world away.