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First Line: Now, o now I needs must part
Last Line: Never shall affection die.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


NOW, O now I needs must part,
Parting though I absent mourn,
Absence can no joy impart,
Joy, once fled, can ne'er return.
While I live I needs must love:
Love lives not when life is gone.
Now, at last, despair doth prove
Love divided loveth none.
Sad despair doth drive me hence,
That despair unkindness sends;
If that parting be offence,
It is she which then offends.

Dear, when I from thee am gone,
Gone are all my joys at once.
I loved thee and thee alone,
In whose love I joyèd once.
While I live I needs must love:
Love lives not when life is gone.
Now at last despair doth prove
Love divided loveth none.
And although your sight I leave,
Sight wherein my joys do lie,
Till that death do sense bereave,
Never shall affection die.





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