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john donne: the bait - hugh dickson lyrics lyrics

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come live with me, and be my love
and we will some new pleasures prove
of golden sands, and crystal brooks
with silken lines, and silver hooks

there will the river whispering run
warm’d by thy eyes, more than the sun;
and there the ‘enamour’d fish will stay
begging themselves they may betray

when thou wilt swim in that live bath
each fish, which every channel hath
will amorously to thee swim
gladder to catch thee, than thou him

if thou, to be so seen, be’st loth
by sun or moon, thou dark’nest both
and if myself have leave to see
i need not their light having thee

let others freeze with angling reeds
and cut their legs with sh+lls and weeds
or treacherously poor fish beset
with strangling snare, or windowy net

let co+rs+ bold hands from slimy nest
the bedded fish in banks out+wrest;
or curious traitors, sleeve+silk flies
bewitch poor fishes’ wand’ring eyes
for thee, thou need’st no such deceit
for thou thyself art thine own bait:
that fish, that is not catch’d thereby
alas, is wiser far than i

- john donne the bait lyrics

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