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Song Of Jealousy, In Love Triumphant.

By John Dryden

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What state of life can be so blest         As love, that warms a lover's breast?         Two souls in one, the same desire         To grant the bliss, and to require!         But if in heaven a hell we find,         'Tis all from thee,         O Jealousy!         'Tis all from thee,         O Jealousy!         Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy,         Thou tyrant of the mind!         All other ills, though sharp they prove,         Serve to refine, and perfect love:         In absence, or unkind disdain,         Sweet hope relieves the lover's pain.         But, ah! no cure but death we find,         To set us free         From Jealousy:         O Jealousy!         Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy,         Thou tyrant of the mind!         False in thy glass all objects are,         Some set too near, and some too far;         Thou art the fire of endless night,         The fire that burns, and gives no light.         All torments of the damn'd we find         In only thee,         O Jealousy!         Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy,         Thou tyrant of the mind!

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About John Dryden

John Dryden (1631–1700) was an English poet, critic, and playwright who served as the first Poet Laureate. His works—including "Absalom and Achitophel," "Mac Flecknoe," and "Alexander's Feast"—established the heroic couplet as the dominant verse form of the Restoration.

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