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First Line: Happy in sleep, waking content to languish
Last Line: And thus I live, because I love her dearly.
Subject(s): Love


Happy in sleep, waking content to languish,
Embracing clouds by night, in daytime mourn;
All things I loathe save her and mine own anguish,
Pleased in my hurt, inured to live forlorn.
Nought do I crave but love, death, or my lady,
Hoarse with crying mercy, mercy yet my merit;
So many vows and prayers ever made I
That now at length to yield mere pity were it.
But still the Hydra of my cares renewing
Revives new sorrows of her fresh disdaining;
Still must I go the summer winds pursuing,
Finding no end nor period of my paining.
Wail all my life, my griefs do touch so nearly,
And thus I live, because I love her dearly.





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