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Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair

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Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
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London
England
Edmund Spencer
Sweet
Lightly
Spirit
Softly
Play
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Hot
Gentle
Titan
Breathing
Titans
Fairs
Beams
Fair
Beam

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