| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | To Chloe | | By William Cartwright (1611–1643) |
| | Who for his sake wished herself younger |
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THERE are two births; the one when light | |
| First strikes the new awaken’d sense; | |
| The other when two souls unite, | |
| And we must count our life from thence: | |
| When you loved me and I loved you | 5 |
| Then both of us were born anew. | |
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| Love then to us new souls did give | |
| And in those souls did plant new powers; | |
| Since when another life we live, | |
| The breath we breathe is his, not ours: | 10 |
| Love makes those young whom age doth chill, | |
| And whom he finds young keeps young still. | | | |
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