Rose-Cheeked Laura

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 Rose-cheek'd Laura, come,
Sing thou smoothly with thy beauty's
Silent music, either other
  Sweetly gracing.

 Lovely forms do flow
From concent divinely framed;
Heav'n is music, and thy beauty's
  Birth is heavenly.

 These dull notes we sing
Discords need for helps to grace them;
Only beauty purely loving
  Knows no discord,

But still moves delight,
Like clear springs renew'd by flowing,
Ever perfect, ever in them-
  Selves eternal.

© Thomas Campion