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First Line: The curious wits, seeing dull pensiveness
Last Line: But only stella's eyes and stella's heart.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


The curious wits, seeing dull pensiveness
Bewray itself in my long settled eyes,
Whence these same fumes of melancholy rise
With idle pains, and missing aim, do guess.
Some, that know how my spring I did address,
Deem that my muse some fruit of knowledge plies;
Others, because the prince my service tries,
Think that I think state errors to redress.
But harder judges judge ambition's rage,
Scourge of itself, still climbing slippery place,
Holds my young brain captived in golden cage.
O fools, or over-wise: alas, the race
Of all my thoughts hath neither stop nor start
But only Stella's eyes and Stella's heart.





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