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EPITHALAMION: 1. THE TIME OF THE MARRIAGE by JOHN DONNE

Poet Analysis

First Line: THOU ART REPRIV'D OLD YEARE, THOU SHALT NOT DIE
Last Line: THE FIRE OF THESE INFLAMING EYES, OR OF THIS LOVING HEART.
Subject(s): WEDDING SONG; EPITHALAMIUM;

Thou art repriv'd old yeare, thou shalt not die,
Though thou upon thy death bed lye,
And should'st within five dayes expire,
Yet thou art rescu'd by a mightier fire,
Then thy old Soule, the Sunne,
When he doth in his largest circle runne.
The passage of the West or East would thaw,
And open wide their easie liquid jawe
To all our ships, could a Promethean art
Either unto the Northerne Pole impart
The fire of these inflaming eyes, or of this loving heart.



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