Fairest Isle, all isles excelling,
Seat of pleasures, and of loves;
Venus here will choose her dwelling,
And forsake her Cyprian groves.
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King Arthur (1691), Act II scene v, 'Song of Venus.John Dryden
What if there be a fated day
When the Faery Isle shall pass away,
And its beautiful groves and fountains seem
The myths of a long, delicious dream!
A century's joys shall first repay
Our hearts, for the evil of that day;
And the Elfin-King has sworn to wed
A daughter of Earth, whose child shall be,
By cross and water hallowe'd,
From the fairies' doom forever free.
What if there be a fated day!
It is far away! it is far away!
Maiden, fair Maiden, I, who sing
Of this summer isle am the island King.Edmund Clarence Stedman
Fountain heads and pathless groves,
Places which pale passion loves.John Fletcher
Let then no doubt, Celinda, touch,
Much less your fairest mind invade:
Were not our souls immortal made
Our equal loves can make them such.Edward Herbert
Oh I'm in love with the janitor's boy,
And the janitor's boy loves me;
He's going to hunt for a desert isle
In our geography.Nathalia Crane
As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
Orson Scott Card
Dryden, John
Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste
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