We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit for verse And if no peace of chronicle we prove, We'll build in sonnet pretty rooms As well a well wrought urne becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs.
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Now God comes to thee, not as in the dawning of the day, not as in the bud of the spring, but as the sun at noon to illustrate all shadows, as the sheaves in harvest, to fill all penuries, all occasions invite his mercies, and all times are his seasons.John Donne
And must she needs be false because she's fair.
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Reason is our Soules left hand, Faith her right, By these wee reach divinity....
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Wilt thou love God, as he thee?
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Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.
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Alas, alas, who's injur'd by my love?
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