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But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.

Edmund Spenser

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Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
Poet
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London
England
Edmund Spencer
Mind
Stop
Bounds
Teach
Tongue
Chaste
Beauty
Angel
Frail
Within
Minds
Frame
Desire
Lead
Angels
Speak
Thoughts
Heavenly
Come
Fashion
Bound
Heart
Rest
Desires

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