Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO OENONE (1), by ROBERT HERRICK


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First Line: What conscience say, is it in thee
Last Line: Take me and mine together!


WHAT conscience, say, is it in thee,
When I a heart had one,
To take away that heart from me,
And to retain thy own?

For shame or pity now incline
To play a loving part;
Either to send me kindly thine,
Or give me back my heart.

Covet not both; but if thou dost
Resolve to part with neither,
Why, yet to show that thou art just,
Take me and mine together!





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