John Donne Selected Poems-4
there above,
o their graves remove.
And t ;
But no.
we
Can be sucs be.
ho is so safe as we? where none can do
treason to us, except one of us two.
true and false fears let us refrain,
Let us love nobly, and live, and add again
Years and years unto years, till tain
to e the second of our reign.
I.
MY name engraved herein
Dotribute my firmness to this glass,
ch been
As w was ;
t price enougo mock
ther rock.
II.
tis muc glass should be
As all-confessing, and through-shine as I ;
tis more t it so thee,
And clear reflects to thine eye.
But all such rules loves magic can undo ;
here you see me, and I am you.
III.
As no one point, nor dash,
accessories to this name,
tempests can outwash
So simes find me the same ;
You tireness better may fulfill,
tern ill.
IV.
Or if too hard and deep
tco teach,
It as a given deaths head keep,
Lovers mortality to preach ;
Or to be
My ruinous anatomy.
V.
then, as all my souls be
Emparadised in you—in whom alone
I understand, and grow, and see—
ters of my body, bone,
Being still he muscle, sinew, and vein
ile this house, will come again.
VI.
till my return repair
And recompact my scatterd body so,
As