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First Line: Love, of man's wan'dring thoughts the restless being
Last Line: Is by descending to her saints destroyed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, 1st Baron; Brooke, Lord


Love, of man's wand'ring thoughts the restless being,
Thou, from my mind with glory wast invited,
Glory of those fair eyes, where all eyes, seeing
Virtue's and beauty's riches, are delighted;
What angel's pride, or what self-disagreeing,
What dazzling brightness hath your beams benighted,
That fall'n thus from those joys which you aspired,
Down to my darkened mind you are retired?

Within which mind, since you from thence ascended,
Truth clouds itself, wit serves but to resemble,
Envy is king, at other's good offended,
Memory doth worlds of wretchedness assemble,
Passion to ruin passion is intended,
My reason is but power to dissemble.
Then tell me love, what glory you divine
Yourself can find within this soul of mine?

Rather go back unto that heavenly quire
Of nature's riches, in her beauties placed,
And there in contemplation feed desire,
Which till it wonder, is not rightly graced;
For those sweet glories, which you do aspire,
Must, as ideas, only be embraced,
Since excellence, in other form enjoyed,
Is by descending to her saints destroyed.





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