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First Line: Stella, while now by honour's cruel might
Last Line: Not them, o no, but you in them I love.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


Stella, while now, by honour's cruel might,
I am from you, light of my life, misled,
And that fair you, my sun, thus overspread
With absence' veil, I live in sorrow's night;
If this dark place yet show, like candle light,
Some beauty's piece, as amber-coloured head,
Milk hands, rose cheeks, or lips more sweet, more red,
Or seeing jets, black, but in blackness bright:
They please, I do confess, they please mine eyes.
But why? Because of you they models be,
Models such be wood-globes of glistering skies.
Dear, therefore be not jealous over me;
If you hear that they seem my heart to move,
Not them, O no, but you in them I love.





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