Stand still, you floods, do not deface That image which you… - Thomas Carew

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Stand still, you floods, do not deface That image which you bear: So votaries, from every place, To you shall altars rear.</p>No winds but lovers' sighs blow here, To trouble these glad streams, On which no star from any sphere Did ever dart such beams.

Thomas Carew

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Thomas Carew (pronounced like "Carey") (1595 – March 22, 1640) was an English poet.

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Ask me no more where Jove bestows, When June is past, the fading rose; For in your beauties, orient deep These flow'rs, as in their causes, steep.

Good to the poor, to kindred dear,
To servants kind, to friendship clear,
To nothing but herself severe.

Give me a wench about thirteene,
Already voted to the Queene
Of lust and lovers, whose soft haire,
Fann’d with the breath of gentle aire Or’e spreads her shoulders like a tent,
And is her vaile and ornament:

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