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John Donne

Stay, O sweet and do not rise!
The light that shines comes from thine eyes;
The day breaks not: it is my heart,
  Because that you and I must part.
      Stay! or else my joys will die
      And perish in their infancy.

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From The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250-1900 | Clarendon, 1919

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