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A Valediction Forbidding Mourning Lyrics by Richard Burton

Richard Burton Reads the Poetry of John Donne

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As virtuous men pass mildly away
And whisper to their souls to go
Whilst some of their sad friends do say
The breath goes now, and some say, No:
So let us melt, and make no noise
No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;
'Twere profanation of our joys
To tell the laity our love
Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears
Men reckon what it did, and meant;
But trepidation of the spheres
Though greater far, is innocent
Dull sublunary lovers' love
(Whose soul is sense) cannot admit
Absence, bеcause it doth remove
Thosе things which elemented it
But we by a love so much refined
That our selves know not what it is
Inter-assured of the mind
Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss
Our two souls therefore, which are one
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion
Like gold to airy thinness beat
If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if the other do
And though it in the center sit
Yet when the other far doth roam
It leans and hearkens after it
And grows erect, as that comes home
Such wilt thou be to me, who must
Like th' other foot, obliquely run;
Thy firmness makes my circle just
And makes me end where I begun
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Richard Burton

Richard Burton

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