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Sweetheart

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Sweetheart, that thou art fair I know,          More fair to me     Than flowers that make the loveliest show          To tempt the bee.     When other girls, whose faces are,          Beside thy face,     As rushlights to the evening star,          Deny thy grace,     I silent sit and let them speak,          As men of strength     Allow the impotent and weak          To rail at length.      If they should tell me Love is blind,          And so doth miss     The faults which they are quick to find,          I'd answer this:     Envy is blind; not Love, whose eyes          Are purged and clear     Through gazing on the perfect skies          Of thine, my dear.

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