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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37448" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Valediction To His Book</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'll tell thee now (dear love) what thou shalt do<br> To anger destiny, as she doth us;<br> How I shall stay, though she eloign me thus,<br>And how posterity shall know it too;<br>  How thine may out-endure<br>  Sibyl's glory, and obscure<br>  Her who from Pindar could allure,<br>And her, through whose help Lucan is not lame,<br>And her, whose book (they say) Homer did find, and name.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Study our manuscripts, those myriads<br> Of letters, which have past 'twixt thee and me;<br> Thence write our annals, and in them will be<br>To all whom love's subliming fire invades,<br>  Rule and example found;<br>  There the faith of any ground<br>  No schismatic will dare to wound,<br>That sees, how Love this grace to us affords,<br>To make, to keep, to use, to be these his records.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This book, as long-lived as the elements,<br> Or as the world's form, this all-gravèd tome<br> In cypher writ, or new made idiom;<br>We for Love's clergy only are instruments;<br>  When this book is made thus,<br>  Should again the ravenous<br>  Vandals and Goths invade us,<br>Learning were safe; in this our universe,<br>Schools might learn sciences, spheres music, angels verse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here Love's divines—since all divinity<br> Is love or wonder—may find all they seek,<br> Whether abstract spiritual love they like,<br>Their souls exhaled with what they do not see;<br>  Or, loth so to amuse<br>  Faith's infirmity, they choose<br>  Something which they may see and use;<br>For, though mind be the heaven, where love doth sit,<br>Beauty a convenient type may be to figure it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here more than in their books may lawyers find,<br> Both by what titles mistresses are ours,<br> And how prerogative these states devours,<br>Transferr'd from Love himself, to womankind;<br>  Who, though from heart and eyes,<br>  They exact great subsidies,<br>  Forsake him who on them relies;<br>And for the cause, honour, or conscience give;<br>Chimeras vain as they or their prerogative.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here statesmen—or of them, they which can read—<br> May of their occupation find the grounds;<br> Love, and their art, alike it deadly wounds,<br>If to consider what 'tis, one proceed.<br>  In both they do excel<br>  Who the present govern well,<br>  Whose weakness none doth, or dares tell;<br>In this thy book, such will there something see,<br>As in the Bible some can find out alchemy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus vent thy thoughts; abroad I'll study thee,<br> As he removes far off, that great heights takes;<br> How great love is, presence best trial makes,<br>But absence tries how long this love will be;<br>  To take a latitude<br>  Sun, or stars, are fitliest view'd<br>  At their brightest, but to conclude<br>Of longitudes, what other way have we,<br>But to mark when and where the dark eclipses be?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Donne">John Donne</a><div class=q>
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