Samuel Daniel - Fair Is My Love and Cruel as She’s Fair

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Fair is my love, and cruel as she's fair: Her brow shades frowns although her eyes are sunny Her smiles are lightning though her pride despair And her disdains are gall, her favours honey; A modest maid, deck'd with a blush of honour Whose feet do tread green paths of youth and love The wonder of all eyes that look upon her: Sacred on earth, design'd a saint above Chastity and beauty, which were deadly foes Live reconciled friends within hеr brow; And had she pity to conjoin with those Then who had hеard the plaints I utter now? For had she not been fair and thus unkind My muse had slept, and none had known my mind