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Light And Darkness.

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Colui che fece.     He who ordained, when first the world began,             Time, that was not before creation's hour,             Divided it, and gave the sun's high power             To rule the one, the moon the other span:     Thence fate and changeful chance and fortune's ban             Did in one moment down on mortals shower:             To me they portioned darkness for a dower;             Dark hath my lot been since I was a man.     Myself am ever mine own counterfeit;             And as deep night grows still more dim and dun,             So still of more misdoing must I rue:     Meanwhile this solace to my soul is sweet,             That my black night doth make more clear the sun             Which at your birth was given to wait on you.

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