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Forbidding Mourning

A Valediction: forbidding mourning

As virtous men passe mildly'away,

And whisper to their soules, to goe,

Whilst some of their sad friends doe say,

The breath goes now, and some say, no:

So let us melt, and make no noise,

No teare-floods, nor sigh-tempests move,

'Twere prophanation of our joyes

To tell the layetie our love.



Moving of th'earth brings harmes and feares,

Men reckon what it did and meant,

But trepidation of the spheares,

Though greater farre, is innocent.



Dull sublunary lovers love

(Whose soule is sense) cannot admit

Absence, because it doth remove

Those things which elemented it.



But we by a'love, so much refin'd

That we ourselves know not what it is,

Inter-assured of the mind,

Care lesse, eyes, lips, and hnds to misse.



Our two soules therefore, which are one,

Though I must goe, endure not yet

A breach, but an expansion,

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