Thy fingers make early flowers of | |
all things. | |
thy hair mostly the hours love: | |
a smoothness which | |
5 |
sings, saying |
(though love be a day) | |
do not fear, we will go amaying. | |
thy whitest feet crisply are straying. | |
Always | |
10 |
thy moist eyes are at kisses playing, |
whose strangeness much | |
says; singing | |
(though love be a day) | |
for which girl art thou flowers bringing? | |
15 |
To be thy lips is a sweet thing |
and small. | |
Death, Thee i call rich beyond wishing | |
if this thou catch, | |
else missing. | |
20 |
(though love be a day |
and life be nothing, it shall not stop kissing). |
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