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EPITHALAMION: 7. THE BENEDICITON by JOHN DONNE

Poet Analysis

First Line: BLEST PAYRE OF SWANS, OH MAY YOU INTERBRING
Last Line: WITH ANY WEST, THESE RADIANT EYES, WITH ANY NORTH, THIS HEART.
Subject(s): WEDDING SONG; EPITHALAMIUM;
Blest payre of Swans, Oh may you interbring
Daily new joyes, and never sing,
Live, till all grounds of wishes faile,
Till honor, yea till wisedome grow so stale,
That, new great heights to trie,
It must serve your ambition, to die;
Raise heires, and may here, to the worlds end, live
Heires from this King, to take thankes, you, to give,
Nature and grace doe all, and nothing Art.
May never age, or error overthwart
With any West, these radiant eyes, with any North, this heart.



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