by John Donne (1572 - 1631)
So, so break off this last lamenting...
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So, so break off this last lamenting kiss Which sucks two souls, and vapours both away; Turn thou ghost that way, and let me turn this, And let ourselves benight our happiest day, We ask none leave to love, nor will we owe Any, so cheap a death as saying, Go; Go; and if that word have not quite killed thee, Ease me with death by bidding me go too. Oh, if it have, let my word work on me, And a just office on a murderer do. Except it be too late, to kill me so, Being double dead, going, and bidding, go.
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- by John Donne (1572 - 1631), "The Expiration" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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