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First Line: O fair! O sweet! When I do look on thee
Last Line: Heart and soul do sing in me.
Variant Title(s): Sonnet To The Tune Of A Spanish Song;sonnet: 7
Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


O fair, O sweet, when I do look on thee,
In whom all joys so well agree,
Heart and soul do sing in me.
This you hear is not my tongue,
Which once said what I conceived,
For it was of use bereaved,
With a cruel answer stung.
No, though tongue to roof be cleaved
Fearing lest he chastised be,
Heart and soul do sing in me.

O fair, O sweet, when I do look on thee,
In whom all joys so well agree,
Heart and soul do sing in me.
Just accord all music makes;
In thee just accord excelleth,
Where each part in such peace dwelleth,
One of other beauty takes.
Since then truth to all minds telleth
That in thee lives harmony,
Heart and soul do sing in me.

O fair, O sweet, when I do look on thee,
In whom all joys so well agree,
Heart and soul do sing in me.
They that heaven have known, do say
That who so that grace obtaineth
To see what fair sight there reigneth,
Forced are to sing alway:
So then, since that heaven remaineth
In thy face I plainly see,
Heart and soul do sing in me.

O fair, O sweet, when I do look on thee,
In whom all joys so well agree,
Heart and soul do sing in me.
Sweet, think not I am at ease
For because my chief part singeth:
This song from death's sorrow springeth,
As to swan in last disease;
For no dumbness nor death bringeth
Stay to true love's melody:
Heart and soul do sing in me.





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