Quote#Wisdom
Prodigious might that union prove
Quote byHenry King · 1592–1669
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "The Boy's answer" to "A Blackamore Maid to a fair Boy", printed, from MS., in ', vol. 12 (July 1742), p. 384, col. 2. See: Kim F. Hall, Things of Darkness: Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern England (Cornell University Press, 1995), pp. 275–6, and Laurence Mason, English Poems of Henry Ki.
English (original)
Prodigious might that union prove, Where Night and Day together move, And the conjunction of our lips Not kisses make but an eclipse; In which the mixed black and white Portends more terrour than delight.
— Henry King
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We that did nothing study but the way To love each other, with which thoughts the day Rose with delight to us, and with them set, Must learn the hateful art, how to forget.
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What great Effects from slender Causes flow!
So All is diff’rent, and yet All is One.
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