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Richard Crashaw Quotes: Nights, sweet as they, Made short by lovers play, Yet long by the absence of the day.
         

Nights, sweet as they, Made short by lovers play, Yet long by the absence of the day.


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Nothing speaks our grief so well as to speak nothing.



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