Idea LXI: Love's Farewell by Michael Drayton
b"Poem read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://classicpoetryaloud.podomatic.com/\\n\\nGiving voice to classic poetry.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------------\\n\\nIdea LXI\\nby Michael Drayton\\n\\nSince there's no help, come let us kiss and part.\\nNay, I have done, you get no more of me;\\nAnd I am glad, yea glad with all my heart,\\nThat thus so cleanly I myself can free.\\n\\nShake hands for ever, cancel all our vows,\\nAnd when we meet at any time again,\\nBe it not seen in either of our brows\\nThat we one jot of former love retain.\\n\\nNow at the last gasp of Love's latest breath,\\nWhen, his pulse failing, Passion speechless lies;\\nWhen Faith is kneeling by his bed of death,\\nAnd Innocence is closing up his eyes--\\nNow, if thou wouldst, when all have given him over,\\nFrom death to life thou might'st him yet recover!"