Samuel Daniel - SonnetSamuel Daniel - Sonnet
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And yet I cannot reprehend the flight
Or blame th` attempt presuming so to soar;
The mounting venture for a high delight
Did make the honour of the fall the more.
For who gets wealth, that puts not from the shore?
Danger hath honour, great designs their fame;
Glory doth follow, courage goes before;
And though th` event oft answers not the same—
Suffice that high attempts have never shame.
The mean observer, whom base safety keeps,
Lives without honour, dies without a name,
And in eternal darkness ever sleeps.—
And therefore, Delia, `tis to me no blot
To have attempted, tho` attain`d thee not.
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