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- I wonder by my troth, what thou and I
- Did, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then,
- But sucked on country pleasures, childishly?
- Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers’ den?
- ’Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be.
- If ever any beauty I did see,
- Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
- And now good-morrow to our waking souls,
- Which watch not one another out of fear;
- For love, all love of other sights controls,
- And makes one little room an everywhere.
- Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,
- Let maps to others, worlds on worlds have shown,
- Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.
- My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,
- And true plain hearts do in the faces rest;
- Where can we find two better hemispheres,
- Without sharp north, without declining west?
- Whatever dies was not mixed equally;
- If our two loves be one, or, thou and I
- Love so alike that none do slacken, none can die.