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The Home Book of Verse 52Part 2 · Chapter 61

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Literature · Romance

The Home Book of Verse 52

Part 2 · Chapter 61

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Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part! Nay, I have done. You get no more of me! And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart, That thus so cleanly I myself can free. Shake hands for ever! Cancel all our vows! And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain. Now at the last gasp of Love's latest breath, When, his pulse failing, Passion speechless lies, When Faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And Innocence is closing up his eyes: Now, if thou wouldst, when all have given him over, From death to life thou might'st him yet recover!
Michael Drayton [1563-1631]
SONNETS From "Diana"

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Stevenson — The Home Book of Verse (Burton Egbert Stevenson) (author lived 1872–1962). Public Domain. Burton Egbert Stevenson, The Home Book of Verse; public domain in the US; text from Project Gutenberg #2620. Source

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The Home Book of Verse 53

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