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Jul. 17th, 2003 09:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
abbandonoBE not dismayed that her unmoved mind,
doth still persist in her rebellious pride:
such love not like to lusts of baser kind,
The harder won, the firmer will abide.
The dureful Oak, whose sap is not yet dried,
is long ere it conceive the kindling fire:
but when it once doth burn, it doth divide
great heat, and makes his flames to heaven aspire.
So hard it is to kindle new desire,
in gentle breast that shall endure for ever:
deep is the wound, that dints the parts entire
with chaste affects, that naught but death can sever.
Then think not long in taking little pain
to knit the knot, that ever shall remain.
--Edmund Spenser, Amoretti, Sonnet VI
doth still persist in her rebellious pride:
such love not like to lusts of baser kind,
The harder won, the firmer will abide.
The dureful Oak, whose sap is not yet dried,
is long ere it conceive the kindling fire:
but when it once doth burn, it doth divide
great heat, and makes his flames to heaven aspire.
So hard it is to kindle new desire,
in gentle breast that shall endure for ever:
deep is the wound, that dints the parts entire
with chaste affects, that naught but death can sever.
Then think not long in taking little pain
to knit the knot, that ever shall remain.
--Edmund Spenser, Amoretti, Sonnet VI