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CANTIGA by THOMAS WALSH

First Line: LET HIM WHOSE TIME HATH COME TO GO
Last Line: ARE PENALTIES THE ABSENT KNOW.
Subject(s): ABSENCE; CHANGE; FORGETFULNESS; SPAIN; SEPARATION; ISOLATION;
@3After the Spanish of Manrique, 1440-1479@1

LET him whose time hath come to go
Put never faith where he must part;
Forgetfulness and change of heart
Are penalties the absent know.
You would be loved—a lover you?—
Then pay your court incessant there,
For hardly are you vanished ere
Remembrance goes as lightly too.
Be done with idle hope, and start
Let him, whose time hath come to go;
Forgetfulness and change of heart
Are penalties the absent know.



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