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First Line: If floods of tears could cleanse my follies past
Last Line: That favours, hopes, and words can blind no more.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


IF floods of tears could cleanse my follies past
And smokes of sighs might sacrifice for sin,
If groaning cries might salve my fault at last,
Or endless moan, for error pardon win,
Then would I cry, weep sigh, and ever moan,
Mine errors, faults, sins, follies, past and gone.

I see my hopes must wither in their bud,
I see my favours are no lasting flowers,
I see that words will breed no better good
Than loss of time and lightening but at hours:
Thus when I see, then thus I say, therefore—
That favours, hopes, and words can blind no more.





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