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Samuel Daniel - Sonnet XXXII: Like as the Spotless Ermelin

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To M. P. <br /> <br />Like as the spotless Ermelin distress'd, <br />Circumpass'd round with filth and loathsome mud, <br />Pines in her grief, imprison'd in her nest, <br />And cannot issue forth to seek her good, <br />So I environ'd with a hateful want <br />Look to the heav'ns, the heav'ns yield forth no grace; <br />I search the earth, the earth I find as scant; <br />I view my self, my self in woeful case. <br />Heav'n nor earth will not, my self cannot work <br />A way through want to free my soul from care; <br />But I must pine, and in my pining lurk, <br />Lest my sad looks bewray me how I fare. <br />My fortune mantled with a cloud s'obscure <br />Thus shades my life so long as wants endure.<br /><br />Samuel Daniel<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-xxxii-like-as-the-spotless-ermelin/

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