With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls, for stony limits…

William Shakespeare
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With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls, for stony limits cannot hold love out ✨ 'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 66
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