| Herbert J.C. Grierson, ed. (1886–1960). Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the 17th C. 1921. |
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| John Donne |
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| 2. Song |
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| GOE, and catche a falling starre, | |
| Get with child a mandrake roote, | |
| Tell me, where all past yeares are, | |
| Or who cleft the Divels foot, | |
| Teach me to heare Mermaides singing, | 5 |
| Or to keep off envies stinging, | |
| And finde | |
| What winde | |
| Serves to advance an honest minde. | |
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| If thou beest borne to strange sights, | 10 |
| Things invisible to see, | |
| Ride ten thousand daies and nights, | |
| Till age snow white haires on thee, | |
| Thou, when thou retorn'st, wilt tell mee | |
| All strange wonders that befell thee, | 15 |
| And sweare | |
| No where | |
| Lives a woman true, and faire. | |
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| If thou findst one, let mee know, | |
| Such a Pilgrimage were sweet; | 20 |
| Yet doe not, I would not goe, | |
| Though at next doore wee might meet, | |
| Though shee were true, when you met her, | |
| And last, till you write your letter, | |
| Yet shee | 25 |
| Will bee | |
| False, ere I come, to two, or three. | |
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