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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.

Edmund Spenser

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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Creation Form Herself Judgement Knowledge Nature Operation World
Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
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Fly Happiness Thinking Wings
Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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Bad Death Equality Goodness Rest
Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Freedom Sin Wasted Time
Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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Love Sweet Time
A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.
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Body Easy Gold Heart Man Mindset World
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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Growth Quite Run World Worst
Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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Evening Fade Fresh Man Morning Taste
For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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Easy Man Willing
So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
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Lesson Love Teaching
Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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Chain Togetherness
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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Bright Eternity Fate Forever Heaven Ourselves
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain
Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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Inspirational Love Power
Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Angry Late Repent
All for love, and nothing for reward.
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Love Reward

Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.

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