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  • An die abgönstige Chloris/ Umb ihren Alabaster-Brüsten etwas mehr Lufft zu verstatten Ode Trochaica

    1.
    Schönste Chloris/ die ihr führet
    Unser Leben in der Hand/
    Also Geist und Hertzen rühret/
    Daß wir euch unabgewand
    Lieben/ und mit freyem Sinn
    Wagen Leib und Leben hin.

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    Ey wie daß ihr so bedecket?
    Daß ihr so fest schnüret ein
    Das/ so nie wil seyn...

    Ernst Christoph Homburg

  • Safe in their alabaster chambers (Dickinson, 1886)

    Safe in their alabaster chambers,

    Untouched by morning and untouched by noon,

    Sleep the meek members of the resurrection,

    Rafter of satin, and roof of stone.


    Light laughs the breeze in her castle of sunshine ;

    Babbles the bee in a...

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