Love
Song: How Near to Good Is What Is Fair
From Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly
Love
How near to good is what is fair,
Which we no sooner see,
But with the lines and outward air
Our senses taken be.
We wish to see it still, and prove
What ways we may deserve;
We court, we praise, we more than love,
We are not grieved to serve.
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MLA
Jonson, Ben. “Song: How Near to Good Is What Is Fair.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/319/.
Chicago
Jonson, Ben. “Song: How Near to Good Is What Is Fair.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/319/.
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