- The Parting
- Abraham Cowley
- Exported from Wikisource on 02/15/20
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- As Men in Greenland left beheld the sun
- From their horizon run;
- And thought upon the sad half year
- Of cold and darkness they must suffer there:
- So on my parting mistress did I look;
- With such swoln eyes my farewell took;
- Ah, my fair star! said I;
- Ah, those blest lands to which bright Thou dost fly!
- In vain the men of learning comfort me;
- And say I'm in a warm degree;
- Say what they please; I say and swear
- 'Tis beyond eighty at least, if you're not here.
- It is, it is; I tremble with the frost,
- And know that I the day have lost;
- And those wild things which men they call,
- I find to be but bears or foxes all.
- Return, return, gay planet of mine East,
- Of all that shines thou much the best!
- And as thou now descend'st to sea,
- More fair and fresh rise up from thence to me!
- Thou, who in many a Propriety,
- So truly art the sun to Me,
- Add one more likeness (which I'm sure you can,)
- And let me and my sun beget a man.
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