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To His Mistress

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There comes an end to summer,     To spring showers and hoar rime;     His mumming to each mummer     Has somewhere end in time,     And since life ends and laughter,     And leaves fall and tears dry,     Who shall call love immortal,     When all that is must die?     Nay, sweet, let's leave unspoken     The vows the fates gainsay,     For all vows made are broken,     We love but while we may.     Let's kiss when kissing pleases,     And part when kisses pall,     Perchance, this time to-morrow,     We shall not love at all.     You ask my love completest,     As strong next year as now,     The devil take you, sweetest,     Ere I make aught such vow.     Life is a masque that changes,     A fig for constancy!     No love at all were better,     Than love which is not free.

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