<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428959" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Friendship's Mystery, To my Dearest Lucasia</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">. <br> COme, my Lucasia, since we see<br> That Miracles Mens faith do move,<br> By wonder and by prodigy<br> To the dull angry world let's prove<br> There's a Religion in our Love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">.<br> For though we were design'd t' agree,<br> That Fate no liberty destroyes,<br> But our Election is as free<br> As Angels, who with greedy choice<br> Are yet determin'd to their joyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Our hearts are doubled by the loss,<br> Here Mixture is Addition grown ;<br> We both diffuse, and both ingross :<br> And we whose minds are so much one,<br> Never, yet ever are alone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> We court our own Captivity<br> Than Thrones more great and innocent :<br> 'Twere banishment to be set free,<br> Since we wear fetters whose intent<br> Not Bondage is, but Ornament.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Divided joyes are tedious found,<br> And griefs united easier grow :<br> We are our selves but by rebound,<br> And all our Titles shuffled so,<br> Both Princes, and both Subjects too.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Our Hearts are mutual Victims laid,<br> While they (such power in Friendship lies)<br> Are Altars, Priests, and Off'rings made :<br> And each Heart which thus kindly dies,<br> Grows deathless by the Sacrifice.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Katherine+Philips">Katherine Philips</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428959" data-title="Friendship's Mystery, To my Dearest Lucasia de Katherine Philips" data-description=". COme, my Lucasia, since we see That Miracles Mens faith do move, By wonder and by prodigy To the dull angry world let's prove There's a Religion in our Love. . For though we were design'd t' agree, That Fate no liberty destroyes, But o..."></div> </div> </div>

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