Wednesday, June 3, 2015

O Mistress mine, where are you roaming?

Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene III 

[O Mistress mine, where are you roaming?]

William Shakespeare1564 - 1616

The Clown, singing
O Mistress mine, where are you roaming?  
O stay and hear! your true-love’s coming  
That can sing both high and low;  
Trip no further, pretty sweeting,  
Journeys end in lovers’ meeting—          
Every wise man’s son doth know.  
  
What is love? ’tis not hereafter;  
Present mirth hath present laughter;  
What’s to come is still unsure:  
In delay there lies no plenty,—          
Then come kiss me, Sweet-and-twenty,  
Youth’s a stuff will not endure.

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