SII, GP #6

XXV
1. Let those who are in favour with their stars
2. Of public honour and proud titles boast,
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Those who are luckier that him, people with more power and money.\

3. Whilst I, whom fortune of such triumph bars

4. Unlook'd for joy in that I honour most./
He is unable to make as much money as them, overlooked by the one he cares about.

5. Great princes' favourites their fair leaves spread

6. But as the marigold at the sun's eye,/
The people that are rich spread with the favors of the prince.

7. And in themselves their pride lies buried,

8. For at a frown they in their glory die.
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Because of all the favors, their prides is shattered.

9. The painful warrior famoused for fight,

10. After a thousand victories once foiled,

11. Is from the book of honour razed quite,

12. And all the rest forgot for which he toiled:
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Even if a great warrior loses one battle he is forever shamed.

13. Then happy I, that love and am beloved,

14. Where I may not remove nor be removed
He is happy the way he is because he is cared for and is in a good place.



I like this poem because I think it shows about how people take so much time into their appearance of the rest of the world that they forget who they really who they are and who they want to be. I also like it because it tells that he is in a place where he can be what he wants and where he has a sort of controlled power.