Excerpt from Sonnets and PoemsAnd bids thee count the cost of golden laughter In the dull coinage of leaden tears.O perjured wisdom! Half/truth hedged with lies! That makes a common stake of joy and pain, When tears are man's most mortal certainties And every instant's joy his heavenly gain.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition.

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