THE SILENT LOVER (i)

by: Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)

      ASSIONS are liken'd best to floods and streams:
      The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;
      So, when affection yields discourse, it seems
      The bottom is but shallow whence they come.
      They that are rich in words, in words discover
      That they are poor in that which makes a lover.

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