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Samuel Daniel - Sonnet XI: Tears, Vows, and Prayers
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Tears, vows, and prayers win the hardest heart: 
Tears, vows, and prayers have I spent in vain; 
Tears cannot soften flint, nor vows convert; 
Prayers prevail not with a quaint disdain. 
I lose my tears where I have lost my love; 
I vow my faith where faith is not regarded; 
I pray in vain a merciless to move; 
So rare a faith ought better be rewarded. 
Yet though I cannot win her will with tears, 
Though my soul`s idol scorneth all my vows, 
Though all my prayers be to so deaf ears, 
No favor though the cruel Fair allows. 
Yet will I weep, vow, pray to cruel she; 
Flint, frost, disdain wears, melts, and yields we see.
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