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With Serving Still

Read 'With Serving Still' by 'Sir Thomas Wyatt' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.

With Serving Still by Sir Thomas Wyatt

 With serving still 
This I have won, 
For my goodwill 
To be undone.

And for redress 
Of all my pain, 
Disdainfulness 
I have again.

And for reward 
Of all my smart, 
Lo, thus unheard, 
I must depart.

Wherefore all ye 
That after shall 
By fortune be, 
As I am, thrall,

Example take 
What I have won, 
Thus for her sake 
To be undone.

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