Drink to me Only With Thine Eyes
Romantic verses by Ben Jonson
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The Hour Glass

Consider this small dust, here in the glass,
By atoms moved :
Could you believe that this the body was
Of one that loved ;
And in his mistress' flame playing like a fly,
Was turned to cinders by her eye :
Yes ; and in death, as life unblest,
To have't exprest,
Even ashes of lovers find no rest.d.
 

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