Break Of Day
- 'Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be?
- O wilt thou therefore rise from me?
- Why should we rise? because 'tis light?
- Did we lie down, because 'twas night?
- Love which in spite of darkness brought us hither,
- Should in despite of light keep us together.
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- Light hath no tongue, but is all eye;
- If it could speak as well as spy,
- This were the worst, that it could say,
- That being well, I fain would stay,
- And that I lov'd my heart and honor so,
- That I would not from him, that had them, go.
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- Must business thee from hence remove?
- Oh, that's the worst disease of love,
- The poor, the foul, the false, love can
- Admit, but not the busied man.
- He which hath business, and makes love, doth do
- Such wrong, as when a married man doth woo.
From: Songs and Sonnets, 1633.
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