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<name>Edmund <index>Spenser</index></name>

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<title>Amoretti LXXV</title>

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<line>One day I wrote her name upon the <rhyme on="a">strand</rhyme>,</line>

<line>But came the waves and washed it <rhyme on="b">away</rhyme>:</line>

<line>Again I wrote it with a second <rhyme on="a">hand</rhyme>,</line>

<line>But came the tide, and made my pains his <rhyme on="b">prey</rhyme>.</line>

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<line>Vain man, said she, that dost in vain <rhyme on="b">assay</rhyme></line>

<line>A mortal thing so to <rhyme on="c">immortalize</rhyme>!</line>

<line>For I myself shall like to this <rhyme on="b">decay</rhyme>,</line>

<line>And eek my name be wiped out <rhyme on="c">likewise</rhyme>.</line>

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<line>Not so (quoth I), let baser things <rhyme on="c">devise</rhyme></line>

<line>To die in dust, but you shall live by <rhyme on="d">fame</rhyme>:</line>

<line>My verse your virtues rare shall <rhyme on="c">eternize</rhyme>,</line>

<line>And in the heavens write your glorious <rhyme on="d">name</rhyme>;</line>

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<line>Where, whenas death shall all the world <rhyme on="e">subdue</rhyme>,</line>

<line>Our love shall live, and later life <rhyme on="e">renew</rhyme>.</line>

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