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Слушать(AI)Upon Fords Two Tragedies
Love's Sacrifice, and the Broken Heart.
Thou cheat'st us,
Ford, mak'st one seem two by art ;
What is love's sacrifice but the broken heart ?
Richard Crashaw
Richard Crashaw (c. 1613 – 21 August 1649) was an English poet, teacher, High Church Anglican cleric and Roman Catholic convert, who was among t
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