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C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Songs and Their Settings: Sweet and Twenty

By William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

From ‘Twelfth Night

O MISTRESS mine! where are you roaming?

Oh, stay, for here your true love’s coming,

That can sing both high and low.

Trip no farther, pretty sweeting:

Journeys end in lovers’ meeting,

Every wise man’s son doth know.

What is love? ’tis not hereafter;

Present mirth hath present laughter;

What’s to come is still unsure:

In delay there lies no plenty;

Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty,—

Youth’s a stuff will not endure.