Chapter 355

O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man; we had been brutes without you. Angels are painted fair to look like you.

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JOHN NORRIS. 1657-1711.

_The Parting_.

How fading are the joys we dote upon! Like apparitions seen and gone; But those which soonest take their flight Are the most exquisite and strong; Like angel's visits, short and bright, Mortality's too weak to bear them long.

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NATHANIEL LEE. 1655-1692.

_Alexander the Great_.