Sir Thomas Wyatt

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    Patience, do what they will
    To work me woe or spite,
    Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    Lux my fair falcon, and your fellows all,
    How well pleasant it were your liberty!
    Ye not forsake me that fair might ye befall.
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    What should I say,
    Since faith is dead,
    And truth away
    From you is fled?
    Should I be led
    With doubleness?
    Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.
    —Lewis Thomas (b. 1913)

    With serving still
    This have I won,
    For my goodwill
    To be undone;
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)