Love

Dust Is Lighter than a Feather

by Walter Davison born 1581; living 1602

From A Poetical Rhapsody (1602), ed. A. H. Bullen (1890–91)

Love

Dust is lighter than a feather,
And the wind more light than either:
But a Woman's fickle mind,
More than feather, dust, or wind.

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Codex Note

In the Rhapsody (ii. 1-20) among the poems Bullen gives to Walter Davison.

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