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First Line: My cynthia hath the waters of mine eyes
Last Line: As now I taste in compass of complaining.
Subject(s): Love


My Cynthia hath the waters of mine eyes,
The ready handmaids on her grace attending,
That never fall to ebb, nor ever dries,
For to their flow she never grants an ending.
The ocean never did attend more duly
Upon his sov'reign's course the night's pale queen,
Nor paid the impost of his waves more truly
Than mine to her in truth have ever been.
Yet nought the rock of that hard heart can move,
Where beat these tears with zeal, and fury driveth;
And yet I rather languish in her love
Than I would joy the fairest she that liveth.
I doubt to find such pleasure in my gaining
As now I taste in compass of complaining.





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