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A happy soul, that all the way
To heaven hath a summer’s day.

— Richard Crashaw

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More quotes by Richard Crashaw

The conscious water saw its God and blushed.

Epigrammatum sacrorum liber (1634)

Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.

’Tis love, not years or limbs that can
Make the martyr, or the man.

And I, what is my crime I cannot tell,
Vnless it be a crime to haue lou'd too well.

Teares, quickly fled,
And vaine, as those are shed
For a dying Maydenhead.

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