Who, in their nightly watchful spheres,

Lead in swift round the months and years.

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What hath night to do with sleep?

Night hath better sweets to prove;

Venus now wakes, and wakens love.

Come, let us our rites begin;

'Tis only day-light that makes sin,

Which these dim shades will ne'er report.

Come, knot hands, and beat the ground