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Home » Famous Poems » John Donne » Daybreak

Daybreak

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STAY O sweet and do not rise! 
The light that shines comes from thine eyes; 
The day breaks not: it is my heart  
Because that you and I must part.
 
Stay! or else my joys will die 5 
And perish in their infancy.
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