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Welcome back! A poem in your honor.
Where, lovely Goddess, dost thou dwell?
In what remote and silent shade?
Within what cave or lonely cell?
With what old hermit, or unpractis'd maid?
In vain I've sought thee all around,
But thy fashionable sound
In crowds was never heard,
Nor ever has thy form on town or court appear'd
The sanctuary is not safe to thee,
Chas'd thence by endless misery,
Thy own professors chase thee thence
And wage eternal war with thee and sense
Then in perplexing comment to cost,
E'en when thy would be thought to show the most
Most beautiful when most distress'd
Descend, O Goddess to my breast
There thou may'st reign, unrivaled and alone,
My thoughts thy subject and my heart thy throne
Lady Mary Montagu
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