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Beauty sat with me all the summer day, Awaiting the sure triumph of her eye; Nor mark'd I till we parted, how, hard by, Love in her train stood ready for his prey.
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For beauty being the best of all we know Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims Of nature.
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When first we met we did not guess That Love would prove so hard a master.
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The day begins to droop, - Its course is done: But nothing tells the place Of the setting sun.
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Masefield's sonnets? Ah yes. Very nice. Pure Shakespeare. Masefield's 'Reynard the Fox'? Very nice, too. Pure Chaucer. Masefield's 'Everlasting Mercy'? H'm. Yes. Pure Masefield.
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