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The Canonization

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love,        Or chide my palsy, or my gout,        My five grey hairs, or ruin'd fortune flout,    With wealth your state, your mind with arts improve,           Take you a course, get you a place,           Observe his Honour, or his Grace,    Or the King's real, or his stamped face        Contemplate, what you will, approve,        So you will let me love.   Alas, alas, who's injur'd by my love?       What merchant's ships have my sighs drown'd?       Who says my tears have overflow'd his ground?   When did my colds a forward spring remove?          When did the heats which my veins fill          Add one more to the plaguy bill?   Soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out still       Litigious men, which quarrels move,       Though she and I do love.   Call us what you will, we are made such by love;       Call her one, me another fly,       We'are tapers too, and at our own cost die,   And we in us find the'eagle and the dove.          The ph{oe}nix riddle hath more wit          By us; we two being one, are it.   So, to one neutral thing both sexes fit,       We die and rise the same, and prove       Mysterious by this love.   We can die by it, if not live by love,       And if unfit for tombs and hearse       Our legend be, it will be fit for verse;   And if no piece of chronicle we prove,          We'll build in sonnets pretty rooms;          As well a well-wrought urn becomes   The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs,       And by these hymns all shall approve       Us canoniz'd for love;   And thus invoke us: "You, whom reverend love       Made one another's hermitage;       You, to whom love was peace, that now is rage;   Who did the whole world's soul contract, and drove          Into the glasses of your eyes          (So made such mirrors, and such spies,   That they did all to you epitomize)       Countries, towns, courts: beg from above       A pattern of your

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John Donne

John Donne (22 January 1572[1] – 31 March 1631) was an English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a Catholic family, a remnant of th…
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