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 BEN JONSON

And such the force the fair example had

As they that saw The good, and durst not practise it, were glad

That such a law Was left yet to mankind, Where they might read and find FRIENDSHIP indeed was written, not in words,

And with the heart, not pen,

Of two so early men, Whose lines her rules were and records Who, ere the first down bloomed on the chin, Had sow'd these fruits, and got the harvest in.

��JOHN DONNE 205 'Daybreak*


 * TAY, O sweet, and do not rise'

The light that shines comes from thine eyes, The day breaks not' it is my heart, Because that you and I must part. Stay' or else my joys will die And perish in their infancy.

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and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot;

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