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MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE EARL OF SOMERSET: THIRD SQUIRE by THOMAS CAMPION

Poet Analysis

First Line: AT SEA THEIR MISCHIEFS GREW, BUT OURS AT LAND
Last Line: FAIR TO OUR EYES, BUT WOEFUL TO BEHOLD.

At sea their mischiefs grew, but ours at land,
For being by chance arrived, while our knights stand
To view their storm-tossed friends on two cliffs near,
Thence, lo, they vanished, and six pillars were
Fixed in their footsteps; pillars all of gold,
Fair to our eyes, but woeful to behold.



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