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[Blame not my hart for flying up too hie]
Blame not my hart for flying up too hie,
Sith thou art cause that it this flight begunne;
For earthly vapours, drawne up by the Sunne,
Comets begun, and night sunnes, in the skie.
Sith thou art cause that it this flight begunne;
For earthly vapours, drawne up by the Sunne,
Comets begun, and night sunnes, in the skie.
Mine humble hart, so with thy heavenly eie
Drawne up aloft, all low desires doth shunne;
Raise then me up, as thou my hart hast done;
So, during night, in heaven remaine may I.
Drawne up aloft, all low desires doth shunne;
Raise then me up, as thou my hart hast done;
So, during night, in heaven remaine may I.
I say againe: Blame not my high desire;
Sith of us both the cause thereof depends;
In thee doth shine, in mee doth burne, a fire.
Fire drawes up other and it selfe ascends:
Thine eye a fire, and so drawes up my love;
My love a fire, and so ascends above.
Sith of us both the cause thereof depends;
In thee doth shine, in mee doth burne, a fire.
Fire drawes up other and it selfe ascends:
Thine eye a fire, and so drawes up my love;
My love a fire, and so ascends above.
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