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Слушать(AI)SONNET The Double Rock
Since thou hast view'd some Gorgon, and art grown A solid stone:
To bring again to softness thy hard heart Is past my art.
Ice may relent to water in a thaw;
But stone made flesh Loves Chymistry ne're saw.
Therefore by thinking on thy hardness,
I Will petrify;
And so within our double Quarryes Wombe,
Dig our Loves Tombe.
Thus strangely will our difference agree;
And, with our selves, amaze the world, to see How both Revenge and Sympathy consent To make two Rocks each others Monument.
Henry King
Henry King (1592 – 30 September 1669) was an English poet who served as Bishop of Chichester.
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