I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
EDMUND SPENSERAll love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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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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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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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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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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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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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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For next to Death is Sleepe to be compared; Therefore his house is unto his annext: Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both betwext.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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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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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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