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OF PETRARCH.
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THE ISLE OF LOVE.

—Beyond where that Egean sea  Does sigh and mourn so oft, There lies an isle delectable,  More pleasant, plain, and soft,
Than any other isle that is  Both wet and washed with sea, Or warmed with the funny beams,  Or yet inflamed be.
In midst thereof there is a hill  Of shadow full and green, With favour sweet, and fragrant scent,  With water sweet and clean;
Whose virtue is, and whole office,  To take out of the mind All sad and pensive blots and marks,  That has with grief it pined.
This is the land wherewith so much  Fair Venus is content, Which consecrat was to that queen,  That time, by men's consent,
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