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The Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics/Book 1/Poem 36

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2705572The Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics — Poem XXXVI. MadrigalFrancis Turner PalgraveWilliam Shakespeare (1564-1616)

xxxvi

MADRIGAL

Take O take those lips away
That so sweetly were forsworn,
And those eyes, the break of day,
Lights that do mislead the morn:
But my kisses bring again,
Bring again—
Seals of love, but seal’d in vain,
Seal’d in vain!
W. Shakespeare