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O! NEVER SAY YE LOVEST ME: by Moses Oluwatobi Adebayo

<body><div class&equals;"booster-block booster-read-block">&NewLine; <div class&equals;"twp-read-time">&NewLine; &Tab;<i class&equals;"booster-icon twp-clock"><&sol;i> <span>Read Time&colon;<&sol;span>2 Minute&comma; 53 Second <&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine; <&sol;div><p><&sol;p>O&excl; Ne&grave;er say ye lovest me&comma;<br>&NewLine;From cozen nurtured i&grave;thy heart’s lee&semi;<br>&NewLine;Sweetly as caesar&grave;s clown&colon; thou oft-speaks&comma;<br>&NewLine;O&excl; Ne&grave;er say thou lovest me&semi;<br>&NewLine;If thy eyne art of whom visage&comma;<br>&NewLine;Doth drawl praises and bare as many shrieks&semi;<br>&NewLine;&lpar;6&rpar;<br>&NewLine;Whereupon thy sin pul&grave;ing thou thereto hades&grave;lake&comma;<br>&NewLine;And merely if thou blames thy pledges as mistake&semi;<br>&NewLine;Covertly whilst shalt thou run on thine heel&comma;<br>&NewLine;Fiery faun roars&semi; Whence pierced-devil yell&semi;<br>&NewLine;Then hate me e&grave;er only if ne&grave;r thou afread of hell&comma;<br>&NewLine;Haste not&comma; Haste not love&comma; likeas steed tied to wheel&semi;<br>&NewLine;&lpar;12&rpar;<br>&NewLine;Ifsoe&grave;en all figs on nature grows but raisins&comma;<br>&NewLine;Heretofore trees&grave;arms fettered unto stormy gales and rains&semi;<br>&NewLine;Know thou&comma; every sons of adam heavily art bound&comma;<br>&NewLine;Flow&grave;g seas&comma; every vales turnest honey-wines&semi;<br>&NewLine;Therein moilsome&comma; With sweat dropp&grave;g from their holes&comma;<br>&NewLine;&grave;Tis thence they eat&semi; gathered their almond&semi;<br>&NewLine;&lpar;18&rpar;<br>&NewLine;Whilstsoever all the ilke and world&grave;s an ice-field&comma;<br>&NewLine;That&grave;s mystery of life&comma; All the world must yield&semi;<br>&NewLine;&grave;Twould be a naked feet we wade through all&semi;<br>&NewLine;Fie’s beauty and distraught upon beautisome of mine&excl;<br>&NewLine;For &grave;ey shalt wither as grass&colon; wilts as pine&comma;<br>&NewLine;As dreary as summer with sun maketh roses fall&semi;<br>&NewLine;&lpar;24&rpar;<br>&NewLine;Lo&excl; Never is&grave;t deathless as colleens&grave;age&comma;<br>&NewLine;Hidden malodour of flowers art as dung i&grave;glade&semi;<br>&NewLine;&grave;Tis thenceward that ill-taste of love unveil&comma;<br>&NewLine;Eke&comma; Belike bedecked delineation and portraits doth fadest&semi;<br>&NewLine;Thusly goest pulchritude away virgin’s breast&comma;<br>&NewLine;Mayest avow collect thou moon&semi; the rocketeer neil&semi;<br>&NewLine;&lpar;30&rpar;<br>&NewLine;Flails not thereof&semi; why &grave;tis gleam of purest tan&quest;<br>&NewLine;Gladdens thy lofty eyes not&comma; Neither its roan&semi;<br>&NewLine;Stars gilts&comma; fine art gilds as costly diamonds&comma;<br>&NewLine;Flashing&comma; yet no enow pleasure of a saved love&semi;<br>&NewLine;O Love&comma; Ne&grave;er starest nor clamour to have&comma;<br>&NewLine;Uponst runnel&grave;s osier&comma; Uponst evergreen mounds&semi;<br>&NewLine;&lpar;36&rpar;<br>&NewLine;Amidst young rocks&comma; fortified caverns full of ariled&comma;<br>&NewLine;Thither be no stand of apples thy lips doth willed&semi;<br>&NewLine;Tarry hither&comma; for my love &OpenCurlyQuote;s right&semi; mine heart intentext&comma;<br>&NewLine;Forsooth&comma; As magnet wiltn’t disown&grave;r darling iron&semi;<br>&NewLine;Fastened and tightly sealed inward and upon&comma;<br>&NewLine;Each so dearly and close to next&semi;<br>&NewLine;&lpar;42&rpar;<br>&NewLine;And canst pass betwixt no air&comma;<br>&NewLine;Hold my hand&comma; &grave;cause tapered is the weir&semi;<br>&NewLine;Pray beloved Pray&semi; Pray &grave;gainxt t’is squall&comma;<br>&NewLine;Pray &grave;o me&semi; not even thee&comma; &grave;m an imperfect Jock&semi;<br>&NewLine;Mortal not as perfect as count&grave;g second of clock&comma;<br>&NewLine;Dount be awed or mind stand&grave;g to watch wherein hall&semi;<br>&NewLine;&lpar;48&rpar;<br>&NewLine;Yonaday&comma; I may lose the big game&comma;<br>&NewLine;Refrain he reserves water to quench its flame&semi;<br>&NewLine;Albeit&grave;&comma; pyre thus spark therefrom a rock&comma;<br>&NewLine;Wilt thou not desert me on brink&comma; flee away&quest;<br>&NewLine;Bedraggled umbrella sinks&comma; come close and stay&comma;<br>&NewLine;Yet a leaflet wilt bring us to&grave;r thatched block&semi;<br>&NewLine;&lpar;54&rpar;<br>&NewLine;Whence I and ye sharest the warmth of &grave;r kisses&comma;<br>&NewLine;Dotingly meeds a nest&comma; flock of magpies&semi;<br>&NewLine;Therewith embrace herd of foxes dwells a den&comma;<br>&NewLine;Hung be spider in its web&comma; he madest with<br>&NewLine;Intelligences&semi;<br>&NewLine;Monkey play sways on branches therein craftiness&comma;<br>&NewLine;Clambers doth fetch kallu&comma; watch his acumen&semi;<br>&NewLine;&lpar;60&rpar;<br>&NewLine;O&excl; ne&grave;er say ye lovest me&comma; When my table’s full of merry&comma;<br>&NewLine;Nor for autumn whence roses art deep and silky&semi;<br>&NewLine;Neither for harvest-time&comma; Let it be thy love&comma;<br>&NewLine;If thou wilt love&semi; Love me for eall&comma; Not for aught&semi;<br>&NewLine;O my lufu&comma; thy love is as valued as breath&semi;<br>&NewLine;O hate me&comma; but for the sake of thy last&grave;g love&semi;&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;poetry&period;wrr&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;03&sol;O-NEVER-SAY-YE-LOVEST-ME-by-Moses-Oluwatobi-Adebayo&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-15101" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;poetry&period;wrr&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;03&sol;O-NEVER-SAY-YE-LOVEST-ME-by-Moses-Oluwatobi-Adebayo&period;jpg" alt&equals;"O&excl; NEVER SAY YE LOVEST ME by Moses Oluwatobi Adebayo" width&equals;"730" height&equals;"547" loading&equals;"lazy"><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine; &NewLine; <div class&equals;"booster-block booster-author-block">&NewLine; <div class&equals;"be-author-details 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