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ARBASTO: DORALICIA'S SONG by ROBERT GREENE

First Line: IN TIME WE SEE THE SILVER DROPS
Last Line: IN BOTH CONTENT AND PLEAS'D.
Subject(s): LOVE; TIME;

IN time we see the silver drops
The craggy stones make soft;
The slowest snail in time we see
Doth creep and climb aloft.

With feeble puffs the tallest pine
In tract of time doth fall;
The hardest heart in time doth yield
To Venus' luring call.

Where chilling frost alate did nip,
There flasheth now a fire;
Where deep disdain bred noisome hate,
There kindleth now desire.

Time causeth hope to have his hap:
What care in time not eas'd?
In time I loath'd that now I love,
In both content and pleas'd.



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