No longer mourn for me when I am dead |
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Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell |
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Give warning to the world that I am fled |
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From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell: |
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Nay, if you read this line, remember not |
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The hand that writ it, for I love you so, |
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That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, |
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If thinking on me then should make you woe. |
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Oh, if, I say, you look upon this verse |
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When I perhaps compounded am with clay, |
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Do not so much as my poor name rehearse, |
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But let your love even with my life decay, |
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Lest the wise world should look into your moan, |
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And mock you with me after I am gone. |
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