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First Line: Since the first look that led me to this error
Last Line: And that with tears, yet all this will not move her.
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


Since the first look that led me to this error,
To this thoughts' maze, to my confusion tending,
Still have I lived in grief, in hope, in terror,
The circle of my sorrows never ending.
Yet cannot leave her love that holds me hateful:
Her eyes exact it, though her heart disdains me;
See what reward he hath that serves th' ungrateful:
So true and loyal love no favors gains me.
Still must I whet my young desires abated
Upon the flint of such a heart rebelling --
And all in vain; her pride is so innated
She yields no place at all for pity's dwelling.
Oft have I told her that my soul did love her,
And that with tears, yet all this will not move her.





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