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What should I do? what, Love, dost thou advise? / Full time it is to die: / And longer than I wish have I delay'd.
My mistress is no more, and with her gone my heart; / To follow her, I must need / Break short the course of my afflictive years: / To view her here below / I ne'er can hope; and irksome 'tis to wait.