Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.
II. Loves NatureLove
Christopher Marlowe (15641593)From “Hero and Leander”
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For will in us is over-ruled by fate.
When two are stript long e’er the course begin,
We wish that one should lose, the other win;
And one especially do we affect
Of two gold ingots, like in each respect:
The reason no man knows; let it suffice,
What we behold is censured by our eyes.
Where both deliberate, the love is slight:
Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?