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No Escape From Love.

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Non posso altra figura.     I cannot by the utmost flight of thought             Conceive another form of air or clay,             Wherewith against thy beauty to array             My wounded heart in armour fancy-wrought:     For, lacking thee, so low my state is brought,             That Love hath stolen all my strength away;             Whence, when I fain would halve my griefs, they weigh             With double sorrow, and I sink to nought.     Thus all in vain my soul to scape thee flies,             For ever faster flies her beauteous foe:             From the swift-footed feebly run the slow!     Yet with his hands Love wipes my weeping eyes,             Saying, this toil will end in happy cheer;             What costs the heart so much, must needs be dear!

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