- The Concealment
- Abraham Cowley
- Exported from Wikisource on 02/15/20
- No; to what purpose should I speak?
- No, wretched heart! swell till you break.
- She cannot love me if she would;
- And, to say truth, ‘twere pity that she should,
- No; to the grave thy sorrows bear;
- As silent as they will be there:
- Since that loved hand this mortal wound does give,
- So handsomely the thing contrive,
- That she may guiltless of it live;
- So perish, that her killing thee
- May a chance-medley,and no murder, be.
- 'Tis nobler much for me, that I
- By her beauty, not her anger, die:
- This will look justly, and become
- An execution; that, a martyrdom.
- The censuring world will ne’er refrain
- From judging men by thunder slain.
- She must be angry, sure, if I should be
- So bold to ask her to make me,
- By being her's, happier than she!
- I will not; ‘tis a milder fate
- To fall by her not loving, than her hate.
- And yet this death of mine, I fear,
- Will ominous to her appear;
- When, sound in every other part,
- Her sacrifice is found without an heart;
- For the last tempest of my death
- Shall sigh out that too with my breath.
- Then shall the world my noble ruin see,
- Some pity and some envy me;
- Then she herself, the mighty she,
- Shall grace my funerals with this truth;
- “‘Twas only Love destroy’d the gentle youth!”
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