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Astrophel and Stella - Sonnet XLII

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O eyes, which do the spheres of beauty moue;     Whose beames be ioyes, whose ioyes all vertues be,     Who, while they make Loue conquer, conquer Loue;     The schooles where Venus hath learnd chastitie:     O eyes, where humble lookes most glorious proue,     Onely lou'd Tyrans, iust in cruelty,     Do not, O doe not, from poore me remoue:     Keep still my zenith, euer shine on me;     For though I neuer see them, but straightwayes     My life forgets to nourish languisht sprites,     Yet still on me, O eyes, dart down your rayes!     And if from majestie of sacred lights     Oppressing mortal sense my death proceed,     Wraceks triumphs be which Loue hie set doth breed.

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