Astrophel and Stella: Seuenth Song

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Whose senses in so euill consort, their step-dame Nature laies,That rauishing delight in them most sweete tunes do not raise;Or if they doe delight therein, yet are so closed with wit,As with sententious lips to set a little vaine on it:O let them heare these sacred tunes, and learne in wonders schooles,To be in things past bounds of wit fooles, if they be not fooles. Who haue so leaden eyes, as not to see sweete beauties show,Or seeing, haue so woden wits, as not that worth to know,Or knowing, haue so muddy minds, as not to be in loue;Or louing, haue so frothy thoughts, as easly thence to moue:O let them see these heauenly beames, and in faire letters reedeA lesson fit, both sight and skill, loue and firme loue to breede. Heare then, but then with wonder heere; see but adoring see,No mortall gifts, no earthly fruits, now here descended be:See, do you see this face? a face? nay image of the skies,Of which the two life-giuing lights are figured in her eyes:Heare you this soule-inuading voice, and count it but a voice?The verie essence of their tunes, when Angles do rejoyce.

© Sir Philip Sidney