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1Pardon me, my dearest love,
2That I place my thoughts above.
3What’s
subsolary1
is yours4And so shall be while life endures.
5Only my aspiring mind
6No felicity can find
7In this dirty,
dunghill2
earth.8My soul remembers still her birth,
9She being a sparkle of that
Light3
10Which ne’er shall set in death or night.
11Nothing here is worth her love;
12Her
summum bonum4
is above.13But this body shortly must
14Melt and moulder into
dust5
.15This due debt can’t be denied;
16The
elements6
must me divide.17Thus, like traitors
quartered out7
,18Are
old Adam’s rebel rout8
.19Then shall my
enfranchised9
spirit20Those eternal joys inherit,
21Which from me shall never part:
22With these thoughts, I cheer my heart.
23Then pardon thy poor
turtledove10
24That hath placed her thoughts above
25Where is endless joy and love.