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First Line: Then like some wealthy island thou shalt lye
Last Line: The joyes, which are to me unspeakable.


Then like some wealthy Island thou shalt lye;
And like the Sea about it, I;
Thou like fair Albion, to the Sailor's Sight,
Spreading her beauteous bosome all in white:
Like the kind Ocean I will be,
With loving armes for ever clasping Thee.

But I'll embrace Thee gentler farre then so;
As their fresh banks soft Rivers do,
Nor shall the proudest Planet boast a power
Of making my full love to ebbe one houre;
It never dry nor low can prove,
Whilst thy unwasted Fountain leads my love.

Such heat and vigour shall our kisses bear,
As if like doves wee' engendred there,
No bound nor rule my pleasures shall endure,
In love there's none too much an Epicure.
Nought shall my hands or lips controule:
I'll kisse Thee through, I'll kisses thy very soule.

Yet nothing, but the night our sports shall know;
Night that's both blinde and silent too.
Alpheus found not a more secret trace,
His lov'd Sicanian Fountain to embrace,
Creeping beneath the Aegean Sea,
Then I will doe t' enjoy, and feast on Thee.

Men, out of wisdome, women, out of pride,
The peasant thefts of love do hide.
That may secure thee; but thou hast yet from Me
A more infallible security.
For there's no danger I should tell
The joyes, which are to me unspeakable.





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