The History of Polindor and Flostella With Other Poems. By I. H. [i.e. John Harington] The third Edition, Revised and much Enlarged |
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The Complaint.
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The Complaint.
Why was I Born,Or not born Blind?
Though thence the scars;
Of whole mankind,
Their Pitty, or Wonder;
That so I'de Womans shape nere known;
Or seeing, had I mist but one,
But Thine alone;
We onely kept asunder.
O then kind Heavens you had blest
A Soul of Anguish,
That's now condemn'd to sad un-rest,
And endlessly must languish:
Yet check my Heart, no more
These Plaints; give o're:
Since thou hadst rather dye through her rejection
Then not have seen so rare Perfection
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