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First Line: Raising my hopes on hills of high desire
Last Line: Framed my desires fit for her eyes to kill.
Subject(s): Hope; Love; Optimism


Raising my hopes on hills of high desire,
Thinking to scale the heaven of her heart,
My slender means presumed too high a part;
Her thunder of disdain forced me retire,
And threw me down to pain in all this fire,
Where lo, I languish in so heavy smart,
Because th' attempt was far above my art:
Her pride brooked not poor souls should come so nigh her.
Yet I protest my high aspiring will
Was not to dispossess her of her right;
Her sov'reignty should have remained still,
I only sought the bliss to have her sight;
Her sight, contented thus to see me spill,
Framed my desires fit for her eyes to kill.





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