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Astrophel and Stella - Sonnet XLIV

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My words I know do well set forth my minde;     My mind bemones his sense of inward smart;     Such smart may pitie claim of any hart;     Her heart, sweet heart, is of no tygres kind:     And yet she heares and yet no pitie I find,     But more I cry, less grace she doth impart.     Alas, what cause is there so ouerthwart     That Nobleness it selfe makes thus vnkind?     I much do ghesse, yet finde no truth saue this,     That when the breath of my complaints doth tuch     Those dainty doors vnto the Court of Blisse,     The heau'nly nature of that place is such,     That, once come there, the sobs of mine annoyes     Are metamorphos'd straight to tunes of ioyes.

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