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AMORETTI: 78 by EDMUND SPENSER

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First Line: LACKING MY LOVE, I GO FROM PLACE TO PLACE
Last Line: AND LET MY THOUGHTS BEHOLD HER SELFE IN MEE.
Subject(s): ABSENCE;

Lackyng my love, I go from place to place,
Lyke a young fawne that late hath lost the hynd,
And seeke each where, where last I sawe her face,
Whose ymage yet I carry fresh in mynd.
I seeke the fields with her late footing synd,
I seeke her bowre with her late presence deckt,
Yet nor in field nor bowre I her can fynd;
Yet field and bowre are full of her aspect.
But when myne eyes I therunto direct,
They ydly back returne to me agayne,
And when I hope to see theyr trew object,
I fynd my selfe but fed with fancies vayne.
Ceasse then, myne eyes, to seeke her selfe to see,
And let my thoughts behold her selfe in mee.



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