Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Listen where thou art sitting

Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave,

In twisted braids of lilies knitting

The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.

Comus. Line 859.

But now my task is smoothly done,

I can fly, or I can run.

Comus. Line 1012.

Or if Virtue feeble were,

Heav'n itself would stoop to her.