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| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
| Sir Walter Raleigh. 1552–1618 |
| 75. The Silent Lover
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| PASSIONS are liken'd best to floods and streams: | |
| The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; | |
| So, when affection yields discourse, it seems | |
| The bottom is but shallow whence they come. | |
| They that are rich in words, in words discover | 5 |
| That they are poor in that which makes a lover. |
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