The Canonization

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love,
Or chide my palsy, or my gout,
My five ______ hairs, or ruined fortune flout,
With wealth your state, ______ mind with arts improve,
Take you a course, get ______ a place,
Observe his honor, or his grace,
Or ______ king's real, or his stampèd face
Contemplate; what you will, approve,
So you will let me love.

Alas, alas, who's injured by my love?
What merchant's ships have my ______ drowned?
Who says my tears have overflowed his ground?
______ did my colds a forward spring remove?
When did ______ heats which my veins fill
Add one more to ______ plaguy bill?
Soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out ______
Litigious men, which quarrels move,
Though she and I ______ love.

Call us what you will, we are made ______ by love;
Call her one, me another fly,
We're ______ too, and at our own cost die,
And we ______ us find the eagle and the dove.
The phoenix ______ hath more wit
By us; we two being one, ______ it.
So, to one neutral thing both sexes fit.
______ die and rise the same, and prove
Mysterious by ______ love.

We can die by it, if not live ______ love,
And if unfit for tombs and hearse
Our ______ be, it will be fit for verse;
And if ______ piece of chronicle we prove,
We'll build in sonnets ______ rooms;
As well a well-wrought urn becomes
The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs,
And by these hymns, all shall ______
Us canonized for Love.

And thus invoke us: "You, ______ reverend love
Made one another's hermitage;
You, to whom ______ was peace, that now is rage;
Who did the ______ world's soul contract, and drove
Into the glasses of ______ eyes
(So made such mirrors, and such spies,
That ______ did all to you epitomize)
Countries, towns, courts: beg ______ above
A pattern of your love!"

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