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As yon great Sun in his supreme condition / Absorbs small worlds and makes them all his own, / So does my love absorb each vain ambition, / Each outside purpose which my life has known. / Stars cannot shine so near that vast orb'd splendour; / They are content to feed his flames of fire: / And so my heart is satisfied to render / Its strength, its all, to meet thy strong desire.
As in a forest when dead leaves are falling / From all save some perennial green tree, / So one by one I find all pleasures palling / That are not linked with or enjoyed by thee. / And all the homage that the world may proffer, / I take as perfumed oils or incense sweet, / And think of it as one thing more to offer, / And sacrifice to Love, at thy dear feet.