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Raleigh,
Sir Walter
A famed English writer, poet, courtier and explorer.. English aristocrat writer poet soldier courtier spy and explorer
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The Silent Lover i
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Written by:
Sir Walter
Raleigh
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PASSIONS are liken'd best to floods and streams:
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;
So, when affection yields discourse, it seems
The bottom is but shallow whence they come.
They that are rich in words, in words discover
That they are poor in that which makes a lover.
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