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            | BREAK OF DAY. by John Donne
 
 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.
 
 
 
 
	
		| Audio Reading by Anniina Jokinen, ©2003. 
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 |  Source:
 Donne, John. Poems of John Donne. vol I.
 E. K. Chambers, ed.
 London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1896. 22.
 
 
 
 
        
          
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