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1 Let those who are in favour with their stars 2 Of public honour and proud titles boast, 3 Whilst I, whom fortune of such triumph bars, 4 Unlook'd for joy in that I honour most. 5 Great princes' favourites their fair leaves spread 6 But as the marigold at the sun's eye, 7 And in themselves their pride lies buried, 8 For at a frown they in their glory die. 9 The painful warrior famoused for fight, 10 After a thousand victories once foil'd, 11 Is from the book of honour razed quite, 12 And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd: 13 Then happy I, that love and am beloved 14 Where I may not remove nor be removed.
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