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First Line: Whilst youth and error led my wandring minde
Last Line: Are made by her to murder thus their lord.
Subject(s): Actaeon (mythology); Love; Mythology - Classical


Whilst youth and error led my wand'ring mind,
And set my thoughts in heedless ways to range,
All unawares a goddess chaste I find,
Diana-like, to work my sudden change.
For her no sooner had my view bewrayed,
But with disdain to see me in that place,
With fairest hand the sweet unkindest maid
Casts water-cold disdain upon my face;
Which turned my sport into a hart's despair,
Which still is chased, whilst I have any breath,
By mine own thoughts, set on me by my fair --
My thoughts like hounds pursue me to my death.
Those that I fostered of mine own accord
Are made by her to murder thus their lord.





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