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Suns may set and rise; we, when our short day has closed, must sleep on during one neverending night.

Soles occidere et redire possunt;
Nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux,
Nox est perpetua una dormienda.

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What a woman says to her ardent lover should be written in wind and running water.

To whom am I to present my pretty new book, freshly smoothed off with dry pumice stone?

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Mourn, ye Graces and Loves, and all you whom the Graces love. My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow my lady's pet, whom she loved more than her own eyes.

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