Can She Excuse My Wrongs Lyrics
Can she excuse my wrongs with Virtue's cloak? <br />
Shall I call her good when she proves unkind? <br />
Are those clear fires which vanish into smoke? <br />
Must I praise the leaves where no fruit I find? <br />
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No no: where shadows do for bodies stand, <br />
Thou may'st be abus'd if thy sight be dim. <br />
Cold love is like to words written on sand, <br />
Or to bubbles which on the water swim. <br />
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Wilt thou be thus abused still, <br />
Seeing that she will right thee never? <br />
If thou canst not o'ercome her will <br />
The love will be thus fruitless ever. <br />
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Was I so base, that I might not aspire <br />
Unto those high joys which she holds from me? <br />
As they are high , so high is my desire: <br />
If she this deny, what can granted be? <br />
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If she will yeld to that which reason is, <br />
It is Reason's will that Love should be just. <br />
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Dear make me happy still be granting this, <br />
Or cut off delays if that die I must. <br />
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Better a thousand times to die, <br />
Than for to live thus still tormented: <br />
Dear, but remember it was I <br />
Who for thy sake did die contended
