The Art of Letters by Robert Lynd
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That, since you would have none of me, I bury some of you.
In _The Blossom_ he is in a still more earthly mood, and declares that, if his mistress remains obdurate, he will return to London, where he will find a mistress: As glad to have my body as my mind. _The Primrose_ is another appeal for a less intellectual love: Should she Be more than woman, she would get above All thought of sex, and think to move My heart to study her, and not to love. If we turn back to _The Undertaking_, however, we find Donne boasting once more of the miraculous purity of a love which it would be useless to communicate to other men, since, there being no other mistress to love in the same kind, they "would love but as before." Hence he will keep the tale a secret: If, as I have, you also do, Virtue attir'd in woman see, And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the He and She. And if this love, though placed so, From profane men you hide, Which will no faith on this bestow, Or, if they do, deride: |
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