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Daybreak

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
   And perish in their infancy.

John Donne

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Gabriel SimpsonLaw (9/21/2007 11:16:00 AM)
Probably the most beautiful poem I have ever read

Lize Powrie (1/9/2005 12:58:00 PM)
STUNNING! so passionate

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