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EPITHALAMION: 3. RAYSING OF THE BRIDEGROOM by JOHN DONNE

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First Line: THOUGH IT BE SOME DIVORCE TO THINKE OF YOU
Last Line: THE FIRE OF THY INFLAMING EYES, AND OF THY LOVING HEART.
Subject(s): LOVE - MARITAL; MARRIAGE; WEDDING SONG; WEDDED LOVE; MARRIAGE - LOVE; WEDDINGS; HUSBANDS; WIVES; EPITHALAMIUM;

Though it be some divorce to thinke of you
Singly, so much one are you two,
Yet let me here contemplate thee,
First, cheerfull Bridegroome, and first let mee see,
How thou prevent'st the Sunne,
And his red foming horses dost outrunne,
How, having laid downe in thy Soveraignes brest
All businesses, from thence to reinvest
Them, when these triumphs cease, thou forward art
To shew to her, who doth the like impart,
The fire of thy inflaming eyes, and of thy loving heart.



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