"Ah, Chloris! could I now but sit As unconcern'd as when Your infant beauty could beget No happiness or pain! When I the dawn used to admire, And praised the coming day, I little thought the rising fire Would take my rest away."
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Poem: Child and Maiden
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Charles Sedley
Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet (March 1639 – 20 August 1701) was an English wit and dramatist.
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