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CLIV



The little Love-god lying once asleep,

Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand,

Whilst many nymphs that vow\'d chaste life to keep

Came tripping by; but in her maiden hand

The fairest votary took up that fire

Which many legions of true hearts had warm\'d;

And so the general of hot desire

Was, sleeping, by a virgin hand disarm\'d.

This brand she quenched in a cool well by,

Which from Love\'s fire took heat perpetual,

Growing a bath and healthful remedy,

For men diseas\'d; but I, my mistress\' thrall,

  Came there for cure and this by that I prove, 

  Love\'s fire heats water, water cools not love.

	--William Shakespeare

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.
W. H. Auden

XCVI



Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness;

Some say thy grace is youth and gentle sport;

Both grace and faults are lov\'d of more and less:

Thou mak\'st faults graces that to thee resort.

As on the finger of a throned queen

The basest jewel will be well esteem\'d,

So are those errors that in thee are seen

To truths translated, and for true things deem\'d.

How many lambs might the stern wolf betray,

If like a lamb he could his looks translate!

How many gazers mightst thou lead away,

if thou wouldst use the strength of all thy state!

  But do not so; I love thee in such sort,

  As, thou being mine, mine is thy good report.

 	--William Shakespeare