The Paradox

John Donne

1572 to 1631

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That any loves but hee:
I cannot say I lov'd, for who can say
Love-slaine, loe, here I lye.
Can judge a perfect Lover;
Once I lov'd and dy'd; and am now become
When the lights life is set,
Mine Epitaph and Tombe.
Wee dye but once, and who lov'd last did die,
No Lover saith, I love, nor any other
For though hee seeme to move, and stirre a while,
Such life is like the light which bideth yet
It doth the sense beguile.
Hee was kill'd yesterday?
Hee thinkes that else none can, nor will agree
Or like the heat, which fire in solid matter
Death kills with too much cold;
Love with excesse of heat, more yong then old,
Here dead men speake their last, and so do I;
Hee that saith twice, doth lye:
Leaves behinde, two houres after.

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