- The Given Heart
- Abraham Cowley
- Exported from Wikisource on 02/15/20
- I wonder what those lovers mean, who say,
- They 'ave giv'en their hearts away.
- Some good kind lover tell me how;
- For mine is but a torment to me now.
- If so it be one place both hearts contain,
- For what do they complain?
- What courtesy can Love do more,
- Than to join hearts, that parted were before?
- Woe to her stubborn heart, if once mine come
- Into the self same room;
- Twill tear and blow up all within,
- Like a granado shot into a magazine.1
- Then shall Love keep the ashes, and torn parts
- Of both our broken hearts:
- Shall out of both one new one make,
- From hers, th' allay;2 from mine, the metal take.
- For of her heart he from the flames will find
- But little left behind:
- Mine only will remain entire;
- No dross3 was there, to perish in the fire.
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- [1] Like a grenade shot into a place where amunition is stored.
- [2] An alloy, a compound mixed with a pure metal to give it some desirable quality like strength.
- [3] In metallurgy, impurities (like alloy compounds) that rise to the surface when metals are heated; the impurities can be poured off leaving pure metal.
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