| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. | | | | We Must Not Part As Others Do | | Anonymous |
| | | WE 1 must not part, as others do, | |
| With sighs and tears, as we were two, | |
| Though with these outward forms, we part; | |
| We keep each other in our heart. | |
| What search hath found a being, where | 5 |
| I am not, if that thou be there? | |
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| True love hath wings, and can as soon | |
| Survey the world, as sun and moon; | |
| And everywhere our triumphs keep | |
| Over absence, which makes others weep: | 10 |
| By which alone a power is given | |
| To live on earth, as they in heaven. | |
| | | Note 1. From the Egerton MS., 2013, printed by Dr. Arber in his English Garner, vol. III. p. 396. [back] | | |
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