- Resolved to be Beloved
- Abraham Cowley
- Exported from Wikisource on 02/15/20
- 'Tis true, I’ve loved already three or four,
- And shall three or four hundred more;
- I’ll love each fair-one that I see,
- Till I found one at last that shall love me.
- That shall my Canaan be, the fatal soil
- That ends my wanderings and my toil:
- I’ll settle there, and happy grow;
- The country does with milk and honey flow.
- The needle trembles so, and turns about,
- Till it the northern point find out;
- But constant then and fix’d does prove,
- Fix’d, that his dearest pole as soon may move.
- Then may my vessel torn and shipwreck’d be,
- If it put forth again to sea!
- It never more abroad shall roam,
- Though’t could next voyage bring the Indies home.
- But I must sweat in love, and labour yet,
- Till I a competency get;
- They’re slothful fools who leave a trade,
- Till they a moderate fortune by’t have made,
- Variety I ask not; give me one
- To live perpetually upon;
- The person Love does to us fit,
- Like manna, has the taste of all in it.
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