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You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light; You common people of the skies,— What are you when the moon shall rise?
You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light; You common people of the skies,— What are you when the moon shall rise?
Approximate author period: c. 1603 AD · renaissance
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- Sir Henry Wotton
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- Approximate author period: c. 1603 AD · renaissance
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia.
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