DAYBREAK

by: John Donne (1573-1631)

      TAY, 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.

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