"If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy Love.But fading flowers in every field, To winter floods their treasures yield; A honey'd tongue, a heart of gall, Is Fancy's spring, but Sorrow's fall."
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Inspired by Christopher Marlowe's The Passionate Shepherd to his Love
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Walter Raleigh
1554 – 1618
englischer Seefahrer, Entdecker und Schriftsteller
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