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TO LUCASTA, ON GOING BEYOND THE SEAS

If to be absent were to be Away from thee; Or that when I am gone You or I were alone; Then, my Lucasta, might I crave Pity from blustering wind, or swallowing wave.
Though seas and land betwixt us both, Our faith and troth, Like separated souls, All time and space controls: Above the highest sphere we meet Unseen, unknown, and greet as Angels greet.
So then we do anticipate Our after-fate. And are alive i’ the skies, If thus our lips and eyes Can speak like spirits unconfined In Heaven, their earthy bodies left behind. Colonel Lovelace


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ENCOURAGEMENTS TO A LOVER

Why so pale and wan, fond lover?Prythee, why so pale? Will, if looking well can’t move her, Looking ill prevail? Prythee, why so pale?
Why so dull and mute, young sinner? Prythee, why so mute? Will, when speaking well can’t win her, Saying nothing do’t? Prythee, why so mute?
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