I PRITHEE SEND ME BACK MY HEART.
By Sir John Suckling (1609–1642).
I prithee send me back my heart,
Since I cannot have thine,
For if from yours you will not part,
Why, then, shouldst thou have mine?
Yet now I think on’t, let it lie;
To find it were in vain;
For thou’st a thief in either eye
Would steal it back again.
Why should two hearts in one breast lie,
And yet not lodge together?
O Love! where is thy sympathy,
If thus our breasts thou sever?
But love is such a mystery,
I cannot find it out;
For when I think I’m best resolved,
I then am in most doubt.
Then farewell care, and farewell wo,
I will no longer pine;
For I’ll believe I have her heart,
As much as she has mine.
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