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.
EDMUND SPENSERAll that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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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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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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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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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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