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LIE STILL, MY DEAR by JOHN DONNE

Poet Analysis

Last Line: AND PERISH IN THEIR INFANCY.
Subject(s): FAREWELL; PARTING;

LIE still, my dear,
Why dost thou rise?
The light that shines,
Comes from thine eyes;
The day breaks not,
It is my heart,
To think that thou and I must part;
Oh stay, oh stay!
Oh, stay, or else my joys must die,
And perish in their infancy.



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