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