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Pine ....Pity. 
Naught is there under Heaven’s wide hollowness 
That moves more dear compassion of the mind 
Than beauty brought to unworthy wretchedness 
Through envy’s snares, or fortune’s freaks unkind: 
I, whether lately through her brightness blind, 
Or through allegiance and vast fealty, 
Which I do owe unto all womankind, 
Feel my heart pierced with so great agony, 
When such I see, that all for pity I could die. 
Spenser. 
Like Ariadne, when in pale despair 
The Athenian left her,—so sad Eva pined, 
And so she went complaining to the air, 
An d gave her tresses to tl\e careless wind:— 
The colour of her fate was on her mind, 
Dark, death-like, and despairing;—and her eye 
Shone lustrous, like the light of prophecy. 
Over the grassy meads,—beside lone streams, 
To perilous heights which no weak step could reach, 
She wandered, feeding her unearthly dreams 
With musing, and would move the tremulous beech 
And shuddering aspen with imploring speech; 
For nothing that did live, save they (who sighed) 
Pitied the downfall of her amorous pride. 
Barry Cornwall. 
