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Then all my thoughts should in thy visage shine,
And if that aught mischanced thou should’st not moan
Nor bear the burthen of thy griefs alone;
No, I would have my share in what were thine
And if that aught mischanced thou should’st not moan
Nor bear the burthen of thy griefs alone;
No, I would have my share in what were thine
And whilst we thus should make our sorrows one.
This happy harmony would make them none.
W. Alexander, Earl of Sterline
This happy harmony would make them none.
W. Alexander, Earl of Sterline
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TRUE LOVE
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:—
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:—
O no! it is an ever-fixéd mark
That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks.
But bears it out ev’n to the edge of doom: —
Within his bending sickle’s compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks.
But bears it out ev’n to the edge of doom: —
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A DITTY
My true-love hath my heart, and I have his.
By just exchange one to the other given:
I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss,
There never was a better bargain driven:
My true-love hath my heart, and I have his.
By just exchange one to the other given:
I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss,
There never was a better bargain driven:
My true-love hath my heart, and I have his.
