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First Line: Turn I my looks unto the skies
Last Line: But in thy love I live and die.
Subject(s): Love


TURN I my looks unto the skies,
Love with his arrows wounds mine eyes:
If so I look upon the ground,
Love then in every flower is found:
Search I the shade to fly my pain,
He meets me in the shades again:
Want I to walk in secret grove,
E'en there I meet with sacred love:
If so I bathe me in the sacred spring,
E'en on the brink I hear him sing:
If so I meditate alone,
He will be partner of my moan:
If so I mourn, he weeps with me,
And where I am, there will he be.
When as I talk of Rosalind,
The god from coyness waxeth kind:
And seems in selfsame flames to fry,
Because he loves as well as I:
Sweet Rosalind, for pity, rue:
For why? than love I am more true:
He, if he speed, will quickly fly:
But in thy love I live and die.





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