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Samuel Daniel - Sonnet XV: If That a Loyal Heart
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If that a loyal heart and faith unfeign`d, 
If a sweet languish with a chaste desire, 
If hunger-starven thought so long retain`d, 
Fed but with smoke, and cherished but with fire, 
And if a brow with care`s characters painted 
Bewrays my love, with broken words half spoken 
To her that sits in my thought`s temple sainted, 
And lays to view my vulture-gnawn heart open, 
If I have done due homage to her eyes, 
And had my sighs still tending on her name, 
If on her love my life and honor lies, 
And she th`unkindest maid still scorns the same, 
Let this suffice: the world yet may see 
The fault is hers, though mine the hurt must be.
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