An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
PETRARCH
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PetrarchPetrarch And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
PetrarchPetrarch How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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PetrarchPetrarch From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
PetrarchPetrarch And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
PetrarchPetrarch You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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