To My Mistress Sitting by a River’s Side
Thomas Carew
1595 to 1640
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MARK, how yond eddy steals away
From the rude ______ into the bay;
There, lock'd up safe, she doth ______
Her waters from the channel's course,
And scorns the ______ that did bring
Her headlong from her native spring.
______ doth she with her new love play,
Whilst he ______ murmuring away.
Mark how she courts the banks, whilst ______
As amorously their arms display,
T' embrace, and clip ______ silver waves:
See how she strokes their sides, and ______
An entrance there, which they deny;
Whereat she frowns, threat'ning to fly
Home to her stream, and 'gins to ______
Backward, but from the channel's brim
Smiling returns into ______ creek,
With thousand dimples on her cheek.
Be ______ this eddy, and I'll make
My breast thy shore, ______ thou shalt take
Secure repose, and never dream
Of ______ quite forsaken stream;
Let him to the wide ocean haste,
There lose his colour, name, and taste:
Thou shalt ______ all, and, safe from him,
Within these arms forever swim.