Nor e’en ’twixt night and day to heaven aspire:

So true it is that what the eye seeth not

But slow is loved, and loved is soon forgot.

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O my life’s mischief, once my love’s delight,

That drew’st a mortgage on my heart’s estate,

Whose baneful clause is never out of date,

Nor can avenging time restore my right:

Whom first to lose sounded that note of spite,

Whereto my doleful days were tuned by fate: