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Tuesday, 29 November 2011

Hot Sun, Cool Fire - George Peele

Hot sun, cool fire, tempered with sweet air,
Black shade, fair nurse, shadow my white hair.
Shine, sun; burn, fire; breathe, air, and ease me;
Black shade, fair nurse, shroud me and please me.
Shadow, my sweet nurse, keep me from burning;
Make not my glad cause cause of mourning.
     Let not my beauty’s fire
     Inflame unstaid desire,
     Nor pierce any bright eye
     That wandereth lightly.

George Peele (1556 – 1596) England

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