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1 | 1 | On a day | On a day, alack the day! |
2 | 2 | Love, whose month | Love, whose month was ever May, |
3 | 3 | Spied a blossom passing fair | Spied a blossom passing fair |
4 | 4 | Playing in the wanton air: | Playing in the wanton air: |
5 | 5 | Through the velvet leaves the wind, | Through the velvet leaves the wind, |
6 | 6 | All unseen, | All unseen, 'gan passage find; |
7 | 7 | That the lover, sick to death, | That the lover, sick to death, |
8 | 8 | Wish himself the heaven's breath. | Wish'd himself the heaven's breath. |
9 | 9 | Air, quoth he, thy cheeks may blow; | "Air", quoth he, "thy cheeks may blow; |
10 | 10 | Air, would I might triumph so! | Air, would I might triumph so! |
11 | 11 | But, ala | But, alas my hand hath sworn |
12 | 12 | Ne'er to pluck thee from thy thorn | Ne'er to pluck thee from thy thorn: |
13 | 13 | Vow, alack, for youth unmeet | Vow, alack, for youth unmeet; |
14 | 14 | Youth so apt to pluck a sweet | Youth so apt to pluck a sweet. |
15 | Do not call it sin in me, | ||
16 | That I am forsworn for thee; | ||
17 | 15 | Thou for whom Jove would swear | Thou for whom Jove would swear |
18 | 16 | Juno but an Ethiope were | Juno but an Ethiope were, |
19 | 17 | And deny himself for Jove, | And deny himself for Jove, |
20 | 18 | Turning mortal for thy love. | Turning mortal for thy love." |
21 | This will I send, and something else more plain, | ||
22 | That shall express my true love's fasting pain. | ||
23 | O, would the king, Biron, and Longaville, | ||
24 | Were lovers too! Ill, to example ill, | ||
25 | Would from my forehead wipe a perjured note; | ||
26 | For none offend where all alike do dote. |
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