Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
EDMUND SPENSERGreatest god below the sky.
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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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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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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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For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate’s decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Me seems the world is run quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed source,And being once amiss grows daily worse and worse.
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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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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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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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For 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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