A WOMAN'S CONSTANCY.

Now thou hast loved me one whole day,

To-morrow, when thou leav'st, what wilt thou say?

Wilt thou then ante-date some new-made vow?

Or say, that now

We are not just those persons which we were?

Or, that oaths made in reverential fear

Of Love and his wrath any may forswear?

Or, as true deaths true marriages untie,

So lovers' contracts, images of those,

Bind but till Sleep, Death's image, them unloose?

Or, your own end to justify

For having purposed change and falsehood, you

Can have no way but falsehood to be true?

Vain lunatic! Against these scapes I could

Dispute and conquer if I would;

Which I abstain to do;

For, by to-morrow, I may think so too.

Dr. John Donne.

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