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| <BLOCKQUOTE>O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends<BR> | |
| For thy neglect of truth in beauty dyed?<BR> | |
| Both truth and beauty on my love depends;<BR> | |
| So dost thou too, and therein dignified.<BR> | |
| Make answer, Muse: wilt thou not haply say<BR> | |
| 'Truth needs no colour, with his colour fix'd;<BR> | |
| Beauty no pencil, beauty's truth to lay;<BR> | |
| But best is best, if never intermix'd?'<BR> | |
| Because he needs no praise, wilt thou be dumb?<BR> | |
| Excuse not silence so; for't lies in thee<BR> | |
| To make him much outlive a gilded tomb,<BR> | |
| And to be praised of ages yet to be.<BR> | |
| Then do thy office, Muse; I teach thee how<BR> | |
| To make him seem long hence as he shows now.<BR> | |
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