Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part, | a | ||||
Nay I have done, you get no more of me; | b | ||||
And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart, | a | ||||
That thus so cleanly I myself can free; | b | ||||
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Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows, | c | |||
And when we meet at any time again, | d | ||||
Be it not seen in either of our brows | c | ||||
That we one lot of former love retain. | d | ||||
Now at the last gasp of love's latest breath, | e | ||||
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When his pulse failing, passion speechless lies, | f | |||
When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, | e | ||||
And innocence is closing up his eyes, | f | ||||
— Now if thou would'st, when all have given him over, | g | ||||
From death to life thou might'st him yet recover! | g | ||||
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