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Songs and Their Settings: Song: Take, Oh! Take
By William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
From ‘Measure for Measure’
T
That so sweetly were forsworn;
And those eyes, the break of day,
Lights that do mislead the morn:
But my kisses bring again,—
Seals of love, but sealed in vain.
Which thy frozen bosom bears,
On whose tops the pinks that grow
Are of those that April wears;
But first set my poor heart free,
Bound in icy chains by thee.