"Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind."

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Source : Edmund Spenser, John Aikin (1810). “The poetical works of Edmund Spenser ... from the text of J. Upton. With a preface, biographical and critical, by J. Aikin”, p.162

Edmund Spenser

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