The Silent Loveri

by Sir Walter Raleigh

Passions are liken'd best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; So, when affection yields discourse, it seems   The bottom is but shallow whence they come. They that are rich in words, in words discover That they are poor in that which makes a lover.

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