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<name>Michael <index>Drayton</index></name>

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<quote>Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part</quote>

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<source>Clipped and marked up from the <plug href="http://www.sonnets.org/drayton.htm">Sonnet Central Drayton page</plug>.</source>

<remark>One of the standards, a model of the sonnet's motion from one certainty early, to another late.</remark>

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<line>Since there's no help, come let us kiss and <rhyme on="a">part</rhyme>,</line>

<line>And I am glad, yea, glad with all my <rhyme on="a">heart</rhyme>,</line>

<line>That thus so cleanly I myself can <rhyme on="b">free</rhyme>;</line>

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<line>Shake hands for ever, cancel all our <rhyme on="c">vows</rhyme>,</line>

<line>And when we meet at any time <rhyme on="d">again</rhyme>,</line>

<line>Be it not seen in either of our <rhyme on="c">brows</rhyme></line>

<line>That we one lot of former love <rhyme on="d">retain</rhyme>.</line>

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<line>Now at the last gasp of love's latest <rhyme on="e">breath</rhyme>,</line>

<line>When his pulse failing, passion speechless <rhyme on="f">lies</rhyme>,</line>

<line>When faith is kneeling by his bed of <rhyme on="e">death</rhyme>,</line>

<line>And innocence is closing up his <rhyme on="f">eyes</rhyme>,</line>

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<line>— Now if thou would'st, when all have given him <rhyme on="g">over</rhyme>,</line>

<line>From death to life thou might'st him yet <rhyme on="g">recover</rhyme>!</line>

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