° ♡＊ Maggie M. C. Wu ＊♡ °

A VALEDICTION:FORBIDDING MOURNING 
 by John Donne

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                      If they be two, they are two so                                        
    As stiff twin compasses are two ; 
Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show 
    To move, but doth, if th' other do. 
 
And though it in the centre sit,                 
                            Yet, when the other far doth roam,                               
It leans, and hearkens after it,                 
  And grows erect, as that comes home. 

Such wilt thou be to me, who must,      
  Like th' other foot, obliquely run ;
                          Thy firmness makes my circle just,                                 
      And makes me end where I begun.

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i love this paragraph of this poem,
because it like something you told me before.
the sentences is so beautiful!!
and the regularity of the rhyme and rhythm is carefully
 designed to create a sense of stability that make those
rationally persuasive image also emotionally convincing.
hope you will like it, too.