That words could do no more: yet on thy part

Hath silence given a thousand times reproof.

I should be bolder, seeing I commend

Love, that my dilatory purpose primes,

But fear lest with my fears my hope should end:

Nay I would truth deny and burn my rhymes,

Renew my sorrows rather than offend,

A thousand times, and yet a thousand times.

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I travel to thee with the sun’s first rays,