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A bride, before a "good-night" could be said, should vanish from her clothes into her bed, as souls from bodies steal, and are not spied. but now she's laid; what though she be? yet there are more delays, for where is he? he comes and passeth through sphere after sphere; first her sheets, then her arms, then anywhere. let not this day, then, but this night be thine; thy day was but the eve to this, o valentine.
-John Donne
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A Bride, Before A "good-night" Could Be

John Donne
A bride, before a "good-night" could be said, should vanish from her clothes into her bed, as souls from bodies steal, and are not spied. but now she's laid; what though she be? yet there are more delays, for where is he? he comes and passeth through sphere after sphere; first her sheets, then her arms, then anywhere. let not this day, then, but this night be thine; thy day was but the eve to this, o valentine.
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