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Foolish eyes, thy streams give over,
Wine, not water, binds the lover:
At the table then be shining,
Gay coquette, and all designing.
Martha Sansom
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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
Roland Barthes
Martha Sansom
Born:
1689
Died:
1736
(aged 47)
Bio:
Martha Fowke, later Martha Sansom, was an English poet.
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