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When I died last, and, Dear, I die As often as from thee I go Though it be but an hour ago, And lovers' hours be full eternity.
John Donne
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John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
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We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit for verse And if no peace of chronicle we prove, We'll build in sonnet pretty rooms As well a well wrought urne becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs.
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Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.
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The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.
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Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.
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