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ON LAURA DANGEROUSLY ILL.
That graceful soul, in mercy call'd away / Before her time to bid the world farewell, / If welcomed as she ought in the realms of day, / In heaven's most blessed regions sure shall dwell.
There between Mars and Venus if she stay, / Her sight the brightness of the sun will quell, / Because, her infinite beauty to survey, / The spirits of the blest will round her swell.
If she decide upon the fourth fair nest / Each of the three to dwindle will begin, / And she alone the fame of beauty win, / Nor e'en in the fifth circle may she rest; / Thence higher if she soar, I surely trust / Jove with all other stars in darkness will be thrust.
MACGREGOR.