SHUT not so soon ; the dull-ey'd night     Has not as yet begun To make a seizure on the light,     Or to seal up the sun. No marigolds yet closed are,     No shadows great appear ; Nor doth the early shepherd's star     Shine like a spangle here. Stay but till my Julia close     Her life-begetting eye, And let the whole world then dispose     Itself to live or die.

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