The crickets sing, and man’s o’er-laboured sense Repairs itself by rest: our Tarquin thus Did softly press the rushes, ere he wakened The chastity he wounded—Cytherea, How bravely thou becom’st thy bed! Fresh lily! And whiter than the sheets!
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The crickets sing, and man’s o’er-laboured sense Repairs itself by rest: our Tarquin thus Did softly press the rushes, ere he wakened The chastity he wounded—Cytherea, How bravely thou becom’st thy bed! Fresh lily! And whiter than the sheets!