Sunday, August 3, 2014

"watch the noyous night, and wait for ioyous day."

When gentle Vna saw the second fall
   Of her deare knight, who wearie of long fight,
   And faint through losse of bloud, mou'd not at all,
   But lay as in a dreame of deepe delight,
   Besmeard with pretious Balme, whose vertuous might
   Did heale his wounds, and scorching heat alay,
   Againe she stricken was with sore affright,
   And for his safetie gan deuoutly pray;
And watch the noyous night, and wait for ioyous day.

     Edmund Spenser, The faerie queene I.xi.50.

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