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On a Girdle
By Edmund Waller (1606–1687)
T
Shall now my joyful temples bind:
No monarch but would give his crown,
His arms might do what this hath done.
The pale which held that lovely deer;
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
Dwelt all that’s good and all that’s fair:
Give me but what this ribbon bound,
Take all the rest the sun goes round.