To Althea, from Prison

When love, with unconfined wings,

Hovers within my gates,

And my divine Althea brings

To whisper at the grates;

When I lie tangled in her hair,

And fetter'd to her eye--

The birds that wanton in the air,

Know no such liberty.

--_Richard Lovelace_

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