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EPIGRAM: 19 by THOMAS WYATT

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First Line: NATURE THAT GAVE THE BEE SO FEAT A GRACE
Last Line: IN CHANGE WHEREOF I LEAVE MY HEART BEHIND.
Subject(s): HEARTS; KISSES; LIPS; NATURE;

Nature, that gave the bee so feat a grace
To find honey of so wondrous fashion,
Hath taught the spider out of the same place
To fetch poison, by strange alteration.
Though this be strange, it is a stranger case
With one kiss by secret operation
Both these at once in those your lips to find,
In change whereof I leave my heart behind.



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