Greatest god below the sky.
EDMUND SPENSERFor whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved meed Due praise, that is the spur of doing well? For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books– I trow that countenance cannot lye Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.
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Through knowledge we behold the world’s creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature’s cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass.
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
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Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!
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All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid.
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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