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For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.

Edmund Spenser

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Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
Poet
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London
England
Edmund Spencer
Since
Cheerful
Eyes
Separation
Eye
Miss
Night
Turned
Mines
Mine
Sight
Cheerless
Missing
Joyous

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