Bright is the eve-star shining cold on high,
Lonely and untouch’d, imprisoned aloft.
And yet ‘tis eclipsed by one beneath the sky,
Whose light diffuses, instead, indolent and soft.
He is watched by Venus, and the enamour’d moon ,
Who, jealous, call him premature into their twilight
Waiting, as Saturn’s steeds, on that final swoon
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