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ValMourn ["As vertuous men pass mildly awaie"]

Movings of the Earth bring harmes and feares
Men reckon what itt did and ment
But trepidation of those Spheres
Though greater farr is Innocent.

Dull Sublunarie lovers loue
(Whose soule is sence) cannot admitt
Absence because that doth remoue
Those things which elemented itt.

But wee by a loue soe mvch refind
That our selues know not whatt it is
Inter=assured of the minde
Carelesse eyes, lips and hands to misse

Our two soules therefore, which are one
Though I mvst goe, endure not yett
A breach, but an expansion
As gold to ayery thinness beat.

If they bee two, they are two soe
As stiff twin compasses are two
Thy Soule the fixd foote makes no show
To moue but doth if the other doe.

And though it in the Center sitt,
Yett when the other farr doth rome
Itt leanes, and harkens after itt
And growes erect as that comes home.

Such wilt thou bee to mee who mvst
Like the other Foole obliquely rvn̅e
Thy firmnesse makes my circle iust
And makes mee end where itt begvnne.| [CW: Send]
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