Rhythmic English Study

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THREE YEARS SHE GREW   Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then nature said, "A lovelier flower  On earth was never sown;  This child I to myself will take;  She shall be mine, and I will make  A lady of my own.  "Myself will to my darling be  Both law and impulses; and with me  The Girl, in rock and plain,  In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power   The kindle or restrain.  "She shall be sportive as the fawn  That wild with glee across the lown  Or up the mountain springs;  And hers shall be the breathing balm,  And hers the silence and the calm  Of mute insensate things.  "The floating clouds their state shall lend  To her; for her the willow bent;  Nor shall she fail to see  Even in the motion of the storm  Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form  By silent sympathy.  "The stars of mid-night shall be dear  To her; and she sha...

The Marriage of True Minds Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it altercation finds,  Or bends with the remover to remove: O, no! it is an ever - fixed mark That looks on tempests, and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand'ring bark,  Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken Love is not Time's fool, though roasy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,  But bears it out even to the age of doom:- If this be error and upon me proved,  I never writ, nor no man ever loved.                              -William Shakespeare