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TO THE MOST PRINCELY AND VERTUOUS THE LADY ELIZABETH by THOMAS CAMPION

Poet Analysis

First Line: SO PARTED YOU AS IF THE WORLD FOR EVER
Last Line: TO CHANGE SHOULD SUBJECT BE AND SUFFER EARTH'S INFECTION!
Subject(s): MOURNING; BEREAVEMENT;
1.

SO parted you as if the world for ever
Had lost with him her light:
Now could your tears hard flint to ruth excite,
Yet may you never
Your loves again partake in human sight:
O why should fate such two kind hearts dissever
As nature never knit more fair or firm together?

2.

So loved you as sister should a brother
Not in a common strain,
For princely blood doeth vulgar fire disdain:
But you each other
On earth embraced in a celestial chain.
Alas, for love! that heavenly-born affection
To change should subject be and suffer earth's infection!



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