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All kings, and all their favourites,/ All glory of honours, beauties, wits,/
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The Sun itself...is elder by a year now
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All other things, to their destruction draw/ Only our love hath no decay,/
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This, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday
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As well as other princes, we, (Who prince enough in one another be)/
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Must leave at last in death, these eyes and ears
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Here upon earth, we are kings, and none but we/
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Can be such kings
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Who is so safe as we? Where none can do/
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Treason to us, except one of us two
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When, by thy scorn,
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O murderess, I am dead
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thee, feigned vestal,
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in worse arms, shall see
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What I will say, I will not tell thee now,
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Lest that preserve thee
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since my love is spent/
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I had rather thou shouldst painfully repent
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We two,
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one another's best
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Our eyes,
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upon one double string
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As 'twixt two equal armies, Fate/
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Suspends uncertain victory
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he knew not which soul spake/
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Because both meant, both spake the same
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This ecstasy doth unperplex/ (We said) and tell us what we love,/
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We see by this, it was not sex
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But O alas, so long so far/
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Our bodies, why do we forbear?
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Nor are dross to us,
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but allay
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So must pure lovers' souls descend/
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T'affections and to faculties...Else a great prince in prison lies
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To our bodies turn we then, that so/
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Weak men on love revealed may look
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this dialogue
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of one
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Me it sucked first,
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and now sucks thee
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Confess it/ this cannot be said/
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A sin, a shame, or loss of maidenhead
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And this, alas,
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Is more than we would do.
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This flea is you and I, and this/
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Our marriage bed and marriage temple is.
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Though parents grudge,
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and you,
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use make you
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apt to kill me
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Yet thou triumph'st and say'st that thou/
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Find'st not thyself nor me the weaker now
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then learn how false fears be,/ Just so much honour, when thou yield'st to me/
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Will waste, as this flea's death took life from thee.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou, and I/
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Did till we loved?
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sucked on country pleasures, childishly?/
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Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?
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all pleasures
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fancies be
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If ever any beauty I did see/
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Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.
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Let sea-discoverers
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to new worlds have gone
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Let us possess one world,
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each hath one, and is one
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Where can we find two better hemispheres?/
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Without sharp north, without declining west?
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Love so alike, that none do slacken,
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none can die
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Some that have deeper digged love's mine than I/
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Say, where his centric happiness doth lie
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I have loved, and got,
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and told
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I should not find that hidden mystery;
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Oh 'tis imposture all
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So, lovers dream a rich and long delight/
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But get a winter-seeming summer's night.
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Our ease, our thrift, our honour, and our day/
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Shall we, for this vain bubble's shadow pay?
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Endure the short scorn
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of a bridegroom's play
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That loving wretch that swears/ 'Tis not the bodies marry, but the minds/
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Which he in her angelic finds
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Hope not for mind in women; at their best/
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Sweetness and wit, they are but mummy, possessed
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The sun
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is spent
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The world's whole
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sap is sunk
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Dead and interred; yet all these seem to laugh;/
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Compared with me, who am their epitaph
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Study me then,
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you who shall lovers be
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For I am every
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dead thing
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He ruined me, and I am re-begot/
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Of absence, darkness, death; things which are not
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I, by love's limbeck, am the grave/
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Of all, that's nothing
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Oft a flood/ Have we two wept, and so/
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Drowned the whole world
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But I am by her death (which word wrongs her)/
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Of the first nothing
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If I were any beast,/ Some ends some means; yea plants, yea stones detest/
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And love
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If I an ordinary nothing were,/
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As shadow, a light, and body must be here
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But I am none;
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nor will my sun renew
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Enjoy your
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summer all
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Both the year's and the day's
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deep midnight is
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Busy old fool
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unruly sun
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Saucy, pedantic wretch, go chide/ Late school boys and sour prentices/
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Go tell court huntsmen that the king will ride/ Call country ants to harvest offices
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Love, all alike no season knows, nor clime,/
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Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time
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I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink/
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But that I would not lose her sight so long
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If her eyes have
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not blinded thine
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Whether both th'Indias of spice and mine/
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Be where thou left'st them, or lie here with me
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She is all states,
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and all princes, I
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Princes do but play us; compared to this/
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All honour's mimick; all wealth alchemy
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Thine age
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asks ease
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To warm the world,
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that's done in warming us
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Shine here to us,
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and thou art everywhere
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So let us melt, and make no noise/
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No tear floods, nor sigh-tempests move
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'Twere profanation of our joys/
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To tell the laity of our love
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Dull sublunary lovers' love/
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(Whose soul is sense) cannot admit/ Absence
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we by a love, so much refined,/
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That ourselves know not what it is
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Care less, eyes, lips,
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and hands to miss
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Our two souls, therefore, which are one...endure not yet/
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A breach, but an expansion/ Like gold to aery thinness beat.
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If they be two, they are two so/
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As stiff twin compasses
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Thy soul the fixed foot, makes no show/
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To move, but doth if th'other do
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when the other doth far roam/ It leans, and hearkens after it,/
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And grows erect as that comes home
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Thy firmness makes my circle just,/
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And makes me end where I begun.
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Let me pour forth/ My tears before thy face...
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For thy face coins them, and thy stamp they do bear
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Fruits of much grief, they are emblems of more,/ When a tear falls, that thou falls which it bore/
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So thou and I are nothing then, when on a divers shore.
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O more than moon,/ Draw not up seas to drown me in thy sphere,/
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Weep me not dead in thine arms
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Since thou and I sigh one another's breath/
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Who'er sighs most, is cruellest, and hastes the other's death.
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This is my play's last scene, here heavens appoint/
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My pilgrimage's last mile
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my race/
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Idly, yet quickly run
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My span's last inch,
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my minute's latest point
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gluttonous death will instantly unjoint/
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My body, and soul, and I shall sleep a space
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But my ever-waking part shall see that face/
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Whose fear already shakes my ever joint
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So fall my sins, that all may have their right,/
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To where they are bred, and would press me to hell
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For thus I leave
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the world, the flesh, and devil
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At the round earth's imagined corners, blow/
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Your trumpets, angels
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arise, arise/ From death, you numberless infinities/
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Of souls, and to your scattered bodies go
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But let them sleep, Lord,
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and me mourn a space
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'Tis late to ask abundance of thy grace,/
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When we are there; here on this lowly ground/ Teach me how to repent
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As if thou hadst sealed
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my pardon with thy blood
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Death be no proud, though some have called thee/
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Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so
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Die not, poor death,
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nor yet canst thou kill me
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soonest our best men
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with thee do go
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Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
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And dost with poison, war and sickness dwell
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One short sleep past, we wake eternally,/
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And death shall be no more, Death thou shalt die.
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What if this present
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were the world's last night?
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Mark in my heart, O soul, where thou dost dwell,/ The picture of Christ crucified, and tell/
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Whether that countenance can thee affright
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Blood fills his frowns, which from his pierced head fell,/ And can that tongue adjudge thee unto hell,/
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Which prayed forgiveness for his foes' fierce spite?/ No, no
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as in my idolatry/
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I said to all my profane mistresses
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To wicked spirits are horrid shapes assigned,/
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This beauteous form assures a piteous mind.
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Batter my heart,
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three-personed God
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As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;/ That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend/
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Your force, to break, blow, burn and make me new
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I, like an usurped town, to another due,/
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Labour to admit you
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Reason your viceroy in me, me should defend,/
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But is captived, and proves weak or untrue
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Yet dearly
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I love you
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But am betrothed
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unto your enemy
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Take me to you, imprison me, for I/ Except you enthral me, never shall be free/
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Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun,/
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Which was my sin, though it were done before?
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that sin through which I run,/
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And do run still: though still I do deplore
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When thou hast done, thou hast not done,/
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For, I have more
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that sin which I have won others to sin?
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and made my sin their door
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I have a sin of fear, that when I have spun/
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My last thread, I shall perish on the shore
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And having done that, thou hast done,/
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I fear no more.
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