A Valediction of my Name, in the Window by John Donne

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My name engraved herein / Doth contribute my firmness to this glass, / Which ever since that charm hath been / As hard, as that which graved it was; / Thine eye will give it price enough, to mock / The diamonds of either rock.

'Tis much that glass should be / As all-confessing, and through-shine as I; / 'Tis more that it shows thee to thee, / And clear reflects thee to thine eye. / But all such rules love's magic can undo; / Here you see me, and I am you.

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