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FOLLOW thy fair sun, unhappy shadow,
Though thou be black as night,
And she made all of light;
Yet follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow!
Follow her whose light thy light depriveth;
Though here thou live disgraced
And she in heaven is placed;
Yet follow her whose light the world reviveth.
Follow those pure beams whose beauty burneth / That so have scorched thee / As thou still black must be, / Till her kind beams thy black to brightness turneth.
Follow her while yet her glory shineth; / There comes a luckless night / That will dim all her light; / And this the black unhappy shade divineth.
Follow still since so thy fates ordained; / The sun must have his shade, / Till both at once do fade; / The sun still proved, the shadow still disdained.