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Graces, that liberal Heaven on few bestows; / Rare excellence, scarce known to human kind; / With youth's bright locks age's ripe judgment join'd; / Celestial charms, which a meek mortal shows; / An elegance unmatch'd; and lips, whence flows / Music that can the sense in fetters bind; / A goddess step; a lovely ardent mind, / That breaks the stubborn, and the haughty bows; / Eyes, whose refulgence petrifies the heart, / To glooms, to shades that can a light impart, / Lift high the lover's soul, or plunge it low; / Speech link'd by tenderness and dignity; / With many a sweetly-interrupted sigh; / Such are the witcheries that transform me so.
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