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Poems Of John Donne: Valediction, Forbidding Mourning

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Donne, John

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Valediction, Forbidding Mourning

As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls to go; While some of their sad friends do say, Now his breath goes, and some say, No;

So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear - floods, nor sigh - tempests move; 'Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love.

Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears Men reckon what it did and meant; But trepidations of the spheres, Through greater far, are innocent.

Dull sublunary lovers' love, Whose soul is sense, cannot admit Absence; for that it doth remove Those things which ...

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