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CONSTANCY by JOHN SUCKLING

Poem Explanation

First Line: OUT UPON IT, I HAVE LOVED
Last Line: A DOZEN IN HER PLACE.
Subject(s): ADMIRATION; FIDELITY; LOVE; FAITHFULNESS; CONSTANCY;
OUT upon it. I have loved
Three whole days together;
And am like to love three more,
If it prove fair weather.

Time shall moult away his wings,
Ere he shall discover
In the whole wide world again
Such a constant lover.

But the spite on 't is, no praise
Is due at all to me;
Love with me had made no stays,
Had it any been but she.

Had it any been but she,
And that very face,
There had been at least ere this
A dozen in her place.


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