Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
EDMUND SPENSERMe 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 evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan’s beams, which then did glister fair.
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So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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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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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.
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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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So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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