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richard burton - the canonization lyrics

for god’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love
or chide my palsy, or my gout
my five gray hairs, or ruined fortune flout
with wealth your state, your mind with arts improve
take you a course, get you a place
observe his honor, or his grace
or the king’s real, or his stampèd face
contemplate; what you will, approve
so you will let me love

alas, alas, who’s injured by my love?
what merchant’s ships have my sighs drowned?
who says my tears have overflowed his ground?
when did my colds a forward spring remove?
when did the hеats which my veins fill
add one more to thе plaguy bill?
soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out still
litigious men, which quarrels move
though she and i do love

call us what you will, we are made such by love;
call her one, me another fly
we’re tapers too, and at our own cost die
and we in us find the eagle and the dove
the phoenix riddle hath more wit
by us; we two being one, are it
so, to one neutral thing both s_xes fit
we die and rise the same, and prove
mysterious by this love
we can die by it, if not live by love
and if unfit for tombs and he_rs_
our legend be, it will be fit for verse;
and if no piece of chronicle we prove
we’ll build in sonnets pretty rooms;
as well a well_wrought urn becomes
the greatest ashes, as half_acre tombs
and by these hymns, all shall approve
us canonized for love

and thus invoke us: “you, whom reverend love
made one another’s hermitage;
you, to whom love was peace, that now is rage;
who did the whole world’s soul contract, and drove
into the glasses of your eyes
(so made such mirrors, and such spies
that they did all to you epitomize)
countries, towns, courts: beg from above
a pattern of your love!”

- richard burton

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