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First Line: Finding those beams, which I must ever love
Last Line: A blinded mole, or else a burned fly.
Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation


Finding those beams, which I must ever love,
To mar my mind, and with my hurt to please,
I deemed it best some absence for to prove,
If further place might further me to ease.
Mine eyes thence drawn, where lived all their light,
Blinded forthwith in dark despair did lie,
Like to the mole, with want of guiding sight
Deep plunged in earth, deprived of the sky.
In absence blind, and wearied with that woe,
To greater woes by presence I return,
Even as the fly which to the flame doth go,
Pleased with the light that his small corse doth burn.
Fair choice I have, either to live or die
A blinded mole, or else a burned fly.





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