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| IF yet I have not all thy love, | |
| Dear, I shall never have it all; | |
| I cannot breathe one other sigh to move, | |
| Nor can entreat one other tear to fall; | |
| And all my treasure, which should purchase thee, | 5 |
| Sighs, tears, and oaths, and letters, I have spent; | |
| Yet no more can be due to me, | |
| Than at the bargain made was meant: | |
| If, then, thy gift of love was partial, | |
| That some to me, some should to others fall, | 10 |
| Dear, I shall never have it all. | |
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| Or if then thou gavest me all, | |
| All was but all which thou hadst then; | |
| But if in thy heart since there be, or shall | |
| New love created be by other men, | 15 |
| Which have their stocks entire, and can in tears, | |
| In sighs, in oaths, in letters outbid me, | |
| This new love may beget new fears; | |
| For this love was not vowed by thee, | |
| And yet it was, thy gift being general: | 20 |
| The ground, thy heart, is mine; whatever shall | |
| Grow there, dear, I should have it all. | |
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| Yet I would not have all yet; | |
| He that hath all can have no more; | |
| And since my love doth every day admit | 25 |
| New growth, thou shouldst have new rewards in store. | |
| Thou canst not every day give me thy heart; | |
| If thou canst give it, then thou never gav’st it: | |
| Love’s riddles are that, though thy heart depart, | |
| It stays at home, and thou with losing sav’st it, | 30 |
| But we will love a way more liberal | |
| Than changing hearts,—to join them; so we shall | |
| Be one, an one another’s All. | |
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