Upon the Curtain of Lucasta’s Picture, It Was Thus Wrought, di Richard Lovelace

Richard Lovelace

Upon the Curtain of Lucasta’s Picture, It Was Thus Wrought

Oh, stay that covetous hand; first turn all eye,

All depth and minde; then mystically spye

Her soul’s faire picture, her faire soul’s, in all

So truely copied from th’ originall,

That you will sweare her body by this law

Is but its shadow, as this, its;—now draw.

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