I WONDER by my troth, what thou and I | |
Did, till we loved ? were we not wean'd till then ? | |
But suck'd on country pleasures, childishly ? | |
Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers' den ? | |
'Twas so ; but this, all pleasures fancies be ; | 5 |
If ever any beauty I did see, | |
Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee. | |
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And now good-morrow to our waking souls, | |
Which watch not one another out of fear ; | |
For love all love of other sights controls, | 10 |
And makes one little room an everywhere. | |
Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone ; | |
Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown ; | |
Let us possess one world ; each hath one, and is one. | |
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My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, | 15 |
And true plain hearts do in the faces rest ; | |
Where can we find two better hemispheres | |
Without sharp north, without declining west ? | |
Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally ; | |
If our two loves be one, or thou and I | 20 |
Love so alike that none can slacken, none can die. | |