Video: the passionate shepherd to his coy mistress

from 7marijan7, 07.06.09

had we but world enough and time
this coyness, baby, were no crime
we would sit down and think which way
to walk and pass our long love's day

come live with me and be my love
and we will all the pleasures prove
though we cannot make the sun stand still
yet we'll make it run

but at my back I always hear
time's winged chariot hurrying near
and yonder there before us lie
deserts of vast eternity

now let us sport while we may
and now like amorous birds of prey
rather at once our time devour
than languish in his slow chapped power

let us roll our strength and all
our sweetness into one ball
tear our pleasures with rough strife
through the iron gates of life

but at my back I always hear
time's winged chariot hurrying near
and yonder there before us lie
deserts of vast eternity

yet it creates transcending these
far other worlds and other seas
who will from this dungeon raise
a soul enslaved so many ways

had we but world enough and time
this coyness, baby, were no crime
the grave's a fine and private place
but none, I think, do there embrace

but at my back I always here
time's winged chariot hurrying near
and yonder there all before us lie
deserts of vast eternity

- andrew marvell and christopher marlowe

Andrew Marvell
Christopher Marlowe

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